Evidence

To help those claiming ESA/PIP here is some advice. My neighbor, a nurse, has got a job as an assessor with capita. She tells me the biggest cause of failure is lack of medical evidence at interview. To enhance your chance ensure you have all medical reports which relate to your illness. She said many attend with illnesses listed but no evidence to back them up.

oldman wrote: To help those claiming ESA/PIP here is some advice. My neighbor, a nurse, has got a job as an assessor with capita. She tells me the biggest cause of failure is lack of medical evidence at interview. To enhance your chance ensure you have all medical reports which relate to your illness. She said many attend with illnesses listed but no evidence to back them up.

Thanks for informing us, but I knew it's always best to take all relevant paperwork to an assement and get them to read it before you start your assessment .

Thumbs up to you oldman.

oldman wrote: To help those claiming ESA/PIP here is some advice. My neighbor, a nurse, has got a job as an assessor with capita. She tells me the biggest cause of failure is lack of medical evidence at interview. To enhance your chance ensure you have all medical reports which relate to your illness. She said many attend with illnesses listed but no evidence to back them up.

l strongly disagree with this had an assessment the other week although not capita the lady who assed me did not look at my evidence or some of it a least now l have really bad bladder problems as a result l have wear pads unfortunately but got not one single point for incontinence so she could not have look at the evidence in front of her

I think the comment is about medical evidence submitted with application form. although we took it along too. I notice on my report that once she had asertained that I met the criteria she did not go into further depth. She chose the 3 sets of evidence for the conclusion.

Details in the application,
Backed by medical evidence
Seen and proved by her own eyes.

If the other situations you have are needed to ensure you get into a group they should be considered even if not supported by medical evidence, they could be by examination.

However, some things are impossible to quantify the way I suspect they are expected to quantify and justify.

The joys of the bloomin thing, may it all go away and rot in a file somewhere and go back to our GPs who have all the evidence at hand.

oldman wrote: To help those claiming ESA/PIP here is some advice. My neighbor, a nurse, has got a job as an assessor with capita. She tells me the biggest cause of failure is lack of medical evidence at interview. To enhance your chance ensure you have all medical reports which relate to your illness. She said many attend with illnesses listed but no evidence to back them up.

It's virtually impossible for me to get the right evidence.
I put in a SAR request to my GP who printed off all the notes from my visits, but the notes were very vague and they are too abbreviated, and also not detailed enough.
I am a self harmer who also lashes out under stress, and none of this is written down on my GP notes.
They did not include my visits to the minor injuries unit, where I went to get my wrist sorted out after cutting it.
The DWP don't realise that some doctors think we are being fussy when we ask for evidence, and I think the DWP are asking too much, they are unsatisfied with evidence, because it hasn't got the right words.
Doctors sometimes don't know the right words to put, and I don;t like telling them their letters are too vague.
This is a gap, the doctors are too busy, and the dwp are too fussy and demanding in asking for specifically worded evidence.
Evidence gathering is proving too stressful for me.
My doctors notes are too vague, there is no record of me having seen the practice nurse at the surgery, and there is no record of me having been to the minor injuries unit.
Also the DWP seem to want recent evidence, and it all just makes my mental health problems worse and not better, as I am frightened of losing my money and being made homeless, due to not being able to pay my mortgage.
I despair