Evidence marked 'Confidential'

del wrote: While searching on internet I came across a document but for the life of me cannot find it again

Anyway what it more or less stated was that if evidence is submitted and it is marked 'confidential' then it will not be passed to the Decision Maker. They are apparently not allowed to view any evidence marked 'confidential'.

This might prove important to those of us who ask for copies of medical records etc. Some medical letters and documents are marked 'confidential' so looks like if you want the Decision Maker to see copies to use as evidence you will have to blank out the word 'confidential'. Not sure if it is marked 'private' but would think same would apply.

Perhaps someone else who knows about this could throw some light on it and confirm that is in fact the case.

There is Confidential and confidential, the fact that a Consultants letter might be marked as confidential does not mean that it cannot be passed to a DWP Decision Maker, however, some information marked as Confidential (my capitalisation), may be restricted, the usual restriction is that only certain individuals can access the information and/or that permission to access the information must be granted first, so a DWP DM may or may not be able to access the information, it often depends on its relevance to the Decision Making process.

An example of Confidential information, would be if someone has had gender re-assignment surgery, in this case it is unlikely that the information would be relevant to the DM's decision making process, so they probably would not have access to it.

Gordon