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Hi all,

I filled the esa form in a few weeks back, got a letter back saying I'm having a home visit by a doctor.

So I'd like to ask a few questions on what'll happen, firstly I never asked for a home visit, is it dependant on what your disability is?

The letter doesn't mention "medical", it says appointment and assessment, it also says a doctor will be arriving, it names the dr and gives a time, what will this dr do? Should I ask for identification/qualification.

Anything alse I should know, seems strange after seeing my gp, doctors, surgeons, professors at the hospital, that they need to send a doctor, what does this doctor know that the others don't.

 

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The appointments are not medicals, they have nothing to do with how ill or disabled you are. They are to do with what you can and can't do physically and therefore the appointments are assessments and not medicals. This Doctor won't be asking about your illness or disability he will be asking you to do various things, asking you if you are able to do x y or z.

 

I've never heard of a home visit when you didn't ask for one, that is strange. Would you have difficulty getting to an assessment centre?

 

Yes, check the Dr's ID.

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Hi all,

I filled the esa form in a few weeks back, got a letter back saying I'm having a home visit by a doctor.

So I'd like to ask a few questions on what'll happen, firstly I never asked for a home visit, is it dependant on what your disability is?

The letter doesn't mention "medical", it says appointment and assessment, it also says a doctor will be arriving, it names the dr and gives a time, what will this dr do? Should I ask for identification/qualification.

Anything alse I should know, seems strange after seeing my gp, doctors, surgeons, professors at the hospital, that they need to send a doctor, what does this doctor know that the others don't.

 

Thanks.

 

As this relates to a claim for ESA, you will have to be assessed as to whether you fit into any of the descriptors and how many points you are entitled to.

 

It has absolutely nothing to do with health condition and how it is being treated. That is the responsibility of your GP.

 

In some cases it is conceivable that those with say cancer could easily be found fit for work!

 

The DWP/ATOS doctor is coming to see if the DWP need to accept you as being unable to carry out any work focused functions (descriptors).

 

Current belief is that the DWP only want to pass one in every eight as being unable to work. The other seven will be told to either get back to work or find a job.

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Cheers for the replies, with it being a doctor and talk of esa medicals, I just wondered what they would be doing, I never mentioned anything about home visit, or being unable to get to an assessement centre, I would have to use my wheelchair most likely but that doesn't say I couldn't get there,

What are the descriptors?

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Cheers for the replies, with it being a doctor and talk of esa medicals, I just wondered what they would be doing, I never mentioned anything about home visit, or being unable to get to an assessement centre, I would have to use my wheelchair most likely but that doesn't say I couldn't get there,

What are the descriptors?

Thanks.

 

 

They are a set of functions that the government say relate to work based activities. Depending on how well you can carry out these functions the score level depends.

 

They are simple things like being able to get a pen out of your shirt breast pocket, the ability to scratch your head, the ability to carry a lightweight object, the ability to pick up a £1 coin off the floor or pavement.

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I've had my visit, very polite doctor but what she wrote I don't know.

Do I just wait for the verdict now and complain if I disagree with the result.

Thanks.

 

Did you confirm the contents of that report with your signature?

 

I believe form BI 118A is one such form that the doctor uses and you sign it.

 

There are a number of disability benefits that you have to confirm that the contents of what is written is exactly what you have said.

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So long as you're still being paid, it's still going through the system and they will notify you eventually.

 

How long it takes seems to depend on which office is dealing with your claim, and I doubt the ATOS doctor had any real idea of how long it would take the DWP to come to a decision.

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Update: Had the phone call to say I've failed!

Sounded like a young lad on the phone, he asked if I thought anything should affect the decision, it's hard to think when you're caught out with a phone call, so I said a couple of things and for both he had to go and ask a colleague, so I thought he's not very clued up for someone making such a big decision.

Anyway it still was a no, so he said I could claim jsa or appeal the decision, I said I would appeal, so he said he'd send the info and I'd have 1 month to appeal in writing.

So what's the process when I get the bumf, he said I'd need a doctors report, does everything come with what they send out?

 

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