Help - Refused home visit for medical for ESA

Oh my I would, that is awfull, your poor daughter
tell them all you have just written here and hopefully sense will prevail.
good luck
linda

Please can anybody advise me. My daughter has severe ME and is going through the changeover from IB to ESA at present. We followed your excellent guides but she has been called in for a medical. Because she is totally housebound and has been since 1999 we asked for a home visit for the medical, which she has done and received every other time for both IB and DLA renewals. The GP has written a letter in support of this, we assume but my daughter has today received a letter from Atos stating that "A Medical Advisor has reviewed all circumstances regarding your claim and has decided that a home visit is not justified."

We are at our wits end as we had to get the not supportive GP out to her yesterday because she is so ill and to travel to the medical centre will take each way in a taxi approximately three quarters of an hour.

Can anybody help us please because I just do not know what to do. I do not want my daughter to go any further into relapse which a journey and medical of this magnitude will do to her.

Hi d,

You can contact your M.P. from this link :
Contacting your MP

You should enquire whether you G.P. received an ESA113 to fill in for DWP/ATOS, see question 6 (regarding traveling to an assessment) of sample ESA113, :

www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/esa113-interactive.pdf

See from this link the ATOS Website :

www.atoshealthcare.com/index.php?option=...iew&id=62&Itemid=417

Further, if you do have to attend the medical assessment see information on this, in this post :

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/forum?func=vie...id=10&id=76502#76527

bro58

Hello Michael,

Thanks for your reply.

I have contacted the tech support for help with the email address thanks.

I have now read the DWP complaints leaflet, thank you and find we probably have a case to complain as we asked on the form for all contact to be in writing as my daughter is unable to talk on the telephone due to her health, they rang to make an appointment!
Their aims seem to be in direct opposition to the way they are treating my daughter but as this is Atos refusing the medical and not the DWP I don't know if we can still complain about that?

I have contacted my MP to see if he can help but the medical is next Tuesday. I am hoping we can rearrange it but in the meantime I will ring the DWP to see if we can get them to change their mind about a home visit.

Thank you so much for all your help.

Thank you Linda. Your comments are much appreciated.

Hi bro58,

Thank you so much for your helpful post. I will ring the GP after 2pm and go and collect a copy of the form the GP filled in which we have been told is illegible. Even if we cannot read her writing we will be able to see the boxes she has ticked which should make interesting reading. At the same time I will ask for a copy of the letter requesting a home visit.

The wonder is that this particular GP has only ever seen my daughter on 2 home visits that we can remember where her primary medical condition of severe ME has not been discussed and where she has been lying prone on the settee.

Thanks again.

Hi, Could you not request home visit under the DDA, as an sdjustment?. Best Wishes