Template letter for requesting medical records

Hi, I have today received another ESA50 to complete for review of my claim and I am thinking about requesting my medical records from my GP and hospital consultants to help me with this daunting prospect. I am sure when I last requested these a number of years ago, I did so using a template letter which I printed off from the Benefits and Work Forum site, does anyone know if this template still exists because I can’t seem to find one. I would be very grateful of any help, thanks in advance.

Thank you for your prompt reply Gordon, it is appreciated.

Uncle M,

Have you checked that a written request is still needed?

I'm not sure if this is just my practice but.... I've requested my medical file three times, it used to be I needed to put a request in writing and pay £10 (this was the case for the first two requests).

I recently put in another request and received them just this month only this time I had to fill in a very simple request form (name, address d.o.b, dates to and from of files requested and then sign it), best of all they no longer charge.

I also put in a data request for a copy of a Videoscopy video from my hospital a few month back, again this was a form and there was no charge so maybe there has been some change in the guidelines on how data requests are handled.

I hope you don't mind me hijacking this thread, as it's sort of related, and under the circumstances I didn't really want to start a new one, but ...

several days ago I wrote a long post asking for a second opinion on a GP's letter in support of our PIP appeal, but it hasn't appeared online yet. So I'm wondering whether the Mods are still chewing it over, whether they decided it was too sensitive to allow through, or ... whether I actually forgot to hit Send! If it's the latter, then silly me, I'll redo it, but if it's too sensitive is there any way I can rephrase it? The tribunal date's getting closer, and I'm no clearer on whether submitting it may do more harm than good.

Many thanks.