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12 years 1 day ago - 12 years 1 day ago #104001 by YoursTruly
Thanks, Gordon.
Presumably, there is no need to pursue my own letter from my GP?
There is not much to see in my notes. In my submission, I acknowledged as much. In common with many with long-term M.E., I rarely visit my GP concerning M.E.
YT
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Yes, it usual for them to request your full medical records, they have a responsibility to inquire into your case, so the letter your GP has produced, whilst evidence, presents only a limited view of your medical history.
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Thanks, Gordon.
Presumably, there is no need to pursue my own letter from my GP?
There is not much to see in my notes. In my submission, I acknowledged as much. In common with many with long-term M.E., I rarely visit my GP concerning M.E.
YT
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12 years 1 day ago #104004 by Gordon
I think it depends on what your GP was going to write, if they were merely going to quote extracts from your records, then I would agree that there may be no need for them to now do this, although you should still consider whether there would be an advantage to their selecting a few pages of notes from what may be many 100s of pages of medical records.
If the GP was also intending to add their opinion as to what the notes mean then this may well be something worth having in regard the appeal.
As always with this type of evidence, the claimant should not just accept the letter at face value, just because your GP has produced a letter does not mean that it will be seen as being supportive of your case. I had two letters available to me, one from my GP and one from a specialist, once you removed all of the unnecessary words from the GP letter, it basically said I was ill, full stop, so not a lot of use.
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YoursTruly wrote: Thanks, Gordon.
Presumably, there is no need to pursue my own letter from my GP?
There is not much to see in my notes. In my submission, I acknowledged as much. In common with many with long-term M.E., I rarely visit my GP concerning M.E.
YT
I think it depends on what your GP was going to write, if they were merely going to quote extracts from your records, then I would agree that there may be no need for them to now do this, although you should still consider whether there would be an advantage to their selecting a few pages of notes from what may be many 100s of pages of medical records.
If the GP was also intending to add their opinion as to what the notes mean then this may well be something worth having in regard the appeal.
As always with this type of evidence, the claimant should not just accept the letter at face value, just because your GP has produced a letter does not mean that it will be seen as being supportive of your case. I had two letters available to me, one from my GP and one from a specialist, once you removed all of the unnecessary words from the GP letter, it basically said I was ill, full stop, so not a lot of use.
Gordon
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12 years 1 day ago #104005 by YoursTruly
Hello Bud,
Are you saying that you had the HCP visit, even though you'd had an ATOS assessment?
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Bud wrote: Yes Gordon thats exactly what happened
Hello Bud,
Are you saying that you had the HCP visit, even though you'd had an ATOS assessment?
YT
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12 years 1 day ago #104006 by citymike
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Hi Yours Truly
As I have already said this happened to me last year.
The Tribunal sent me a consent form to obtain my medical records from my GP, this was after my appeal following decision made from paperwork(no medical). They asked for my records over a 3 year period( 210pages). I was not called to a medical.
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As I have already said this happened to me last year.
The Tribunal sent me a consent form to obtain my medical records from my GP, this was after my appeal following decision made from paperwork(no medical). They asked for my records over a 3 year period( 210pages). I was not called to a medical.
Best Wishes CM
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12 years 1 day ago #104009 by Billy
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Hi Yt
I did not have a ATOS assessment
I did not have a ATOS assessment
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12 years 1 day ago #104013 by YoursTruly
I'd given him a copy of my submission, asking him to comment.
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I think it depends on what your GP was going to write, if they were merely going to quote extracts from your records, then I would agree that there may be no need for them to now do this, although you should still consider whether there would be an advantage to their selecting a few pages of notes from what may be many 100s of pages of medical records.
If the GP was also intending to add their opinion as to what the notes mean then this may well be something worth having in regard the appeal.
As always with this type of evidence, the claimant should not just accept the letter at face value, just because your GP has produced a letter does not mean that it will be seen as being supportive of your case. I had two letters available to me, one from my GP and one from a specialist, once you removed all of the unnecessary words from the GP letter, it basically said I was ill, full stop, so not a lot of use.
Gordon
I'd given him a copy of my submission, asking him to comment.
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