supporting evidence

radhika

I don't think there is any rule, either way.

Each DWP office handles a large geographical area, and as a consequence most DMs will be dealing with several 100s of active files at any one time, they'll have to have a better memory than I do, although that wouldn't be difficult (cut to picture of Goldfish), to remenber the details of a previous asessment without refering to the file

Gordon

radhika wrote:

Can anyone advise please.

When a specialist consultant writes his report on the patient, does he need to include in the report if the patient should be in the "Support Group" and is not fit to attend medicals or should he just state that the patient is unfit for any kind of work due to disabilities and a medical would cause unecessary stress.

Radhika.

Wherever possible Health Care Professionals providing you with reports should be asked to make there comments with reference to the ESA descriptors for the WRAG and/or Support Group.

So if your Consultant believes your husband should be in the SG, then they should say why, not adding an explanation will dimish the impact of the report, as it will be asssumed that they do not know the criteria and that therefore the statement is simply for effect.

As a general rule, stating that a claimant is unable to do any kind of work, carries little weight with ATOS and the DWP.

Gordon