Appeal hearing/Re-applying for ESA

I hope someone can answer this question for me.

I have my ESA appeal hearing in mid March. I have poor medical evidence as my local NHS consultant stopped taking new patients due to funding problems (his clinic is likely to close imminently) and I have been moved from one GP to another due to staffing problems at my surgery. I am still waiting for a new GP to write my report, having lodged my appeal last September!

I hold out very little hope of winning.

Q1 - should I still attend the appeal in person?

Q2 - can I re-apply for ESA if I fail the appeal? Six months will have passed since being declared 'fit for work'.

Thank you.

Thank you Gordon.

hi everbody.

just to add to this if you fail a tribunal
after over six months have past since the
failure of your wca. do the dwp write to your doctor to tell them not to issue you
with any more sick notes.as they do when they make there original wca decision or
is the slate rubbed clean and this is the
start of wca mark 11 if you provide a fresh
sick note.

gorden i have been told by my dr that they are told not to issue any more fit notes when you fail wca unless you appeal or your condition gets worse.

bill