PIP Claim form - Q5 Managing treatments

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DWP guidance for assessors states

"These descriptors apply to the duration of the supervision, prompting or assistance and not the duration of the therapy. For example if compression bandaging is worn 24 hours a day for venous insufficiency, the time spent by another person applying the bandaging is counted, not the time the bandages are worn."

However, if you need assistance to remove the pads then this should be included as well and if their is maintenance to the equipment that is required then it would be reasonable to include this as well, for example; my understanding is that the pads need to be regularly cleaned in order for them to be effective. Also if the pads dislodge or the cables become disconnected with any regularity you should be able to include this under the heading of supervision.

However, you need to show that for the majority of the time you cannot manage this treatment on your own, specifically that you need assistance from another person to apply the pads, etc. and without that assistance you would not be able to do so, if it is simply easier for you to have assistance then you may not score points.

Gordon