gp support letter

Hello,

I recently spoke to my gp about getting a support letter for my forthcoming esa form. She tells me they do not do support letters, and that they only fill in the form the dwp sends them to fill in. She says if my claim is rejected, and I appeal, then whoever appeals on my behalf would write to my gp and ask her to say more about my problems/conditions, and then she will do a letter at that time for them to use to fight on my behalf.

I know several people on here have got support letters so I am a bit confused why she is taking this stance. Do each doctor's surgery rules vary from one to the other? She also says that the doctors filling in forms from the dwp will be stopped in the future, as they now have their own system. Is this correct?

Any advice would be great. Thanks.

pjd wrote:

Hello,

I recently spoke to my gp about getting a support letter for my forthcoming esa form. She tells me they do not do support letters, and that they only fill in the form the dwp sends them to fill in. She says if my claim is rejected, and I appeal, then whoever appeals on my behalf would write to my gp and ask her to say more about my problems/conditions, and then she will do a letter at that time for them to use to fight on my behalf.

I know several people on here have got support letters so I am a bit confused why she is taking this stance. Do each doctor's surgery rules vary from one to the other? She also says that the doctors filling in forms from the dwp will be stopped in the future, as they now have their own system. Is this correct?

Any advice would be great. Thanks.

See my replies in this thread HERE.

Thanks gordon,

She made it seem like she was not allowed to do a support letter, so thats why I was bit confused.

She knows about my conditions but says she can only comment on what my consultants say in their letters to her (often they are brief and dont contain a lot of what is discusssed - they keep it brief by just saying I need help with all aspects of daily living). It needs to be more descriptive than that doesn't it?

my GP was the same, actually said he couldn't do a letter just respond to requests for information from dwp and dwp just kept saying a gp or specialists opinion were irrelevant so they wouldn't contact him In the end my hubbie went to cab and they sent my gp a form to fill in and he did it great, stating I could not mobilise 50 metres unaided and could not self propel a wheelchair and went into detail on other problems! still do not understand why he couldn't do that for me but alls well in the end... I hope...appeal on monday for support group rather than wrag [transfer from long term IB without medical]
good luck to you
regards
linda