Appeals officer converse with your GP

Sunshine lollipop

Is it standard process for an appeals officer to contact your GP in relation to your case or do they take letters sent from their office on face value?

splinter65

Sunshine lollipop wrote: »

Is it standard process for an appeals officer to contact your GP in relation to your case or do they take letters sent from their office on face value?

Your GP or any other doctor treating you would never be contacted by SW, nor would your GP respond if they did.

Sunshine lollipop

splinter65 wrote: »

Your GP or any other doctor treating you would never be contacted by SW, nor would your GP respond if they did.

Would your Gp contact them? Something was sent on June 18th & it wasn’t from myself. Last thing I sent was May 10th & it was sent immediately unless it was late to be keyed in on the system

splinter65

Sunshine lollipop wrote: »

Would your Gp contact them? Something was sent on June 18th & it wasn’t from myself. Last thing I sent was May 10th & it was sent immediately unless it was late to be keyed in on the system

If you sent something on May 10th then it’s about right that SW logged it as received on May 18.
Ask your GP if he sent something off his own bat, but I seriously doubt it.

Sunshine lollipop

splinter65 wrote: »

If you sent something on May 10th then it’s about right that SW logged it as received on May 18.
Ask your GP if he sent something off his own bat, but I seriously doubt it.

No no, I mean, they said the last thing received (unable to say what or from who) was documented as June 18th. I sent a letter myself on May 10th but surely it would have been logged before a month had passed.

banie01

Could it have been a medical report request by any chance?
I know when I was on Illness Benefit, I'd receive periodic questionnaires with an additional report request to be dropped to my GP for him to complete and return separately.

Could it be the case that you got one of these, dropped it to your GP and they just sent it back a little late?


On the subject of the Dept of SW and your treating doctors not speaking.
I know in my case, each time a report was needed a letter with the request was forwarded to me for me to drop in to my GP.

That said, I was moved to Invalidity Pension with no need for me to send in any additional medical detail or reports after a recent review with the SW appointed doctor.
So in that sense it would appear that once authorized, medical info is shared.

Sunshine lollipop

banie01 wrote: »

Could it have been a medical report request by any chance?
I know when I was on Illness Benefit, I'd receive periodic questionnaires with an additional report request to be dropped to my GP for him to complete and return separately.

Could it be the case that you got one of these, dropped it to your GP and they just sent it back a little late?


On the subject of the Dept of SW and your treating doctors not speaking.
I know in my case, each time a report was needed a letter with the request was forwarded to me for me to drop in to my GP.

That said, I was moved to Invalidity Pension with no need for me to send in any additional medical detail or reports after a recent review with the SW appointed doctor.
So in that sense it would appear that once authorized, medical info is shared.

No, nothing was sent to be filled in at this point. I’m in the latter stage of the appeals process. It’s puzzling me because they’re sating they received something but it’s not the dates I sent them unless it was logged a month down the line.

I thought maybe the doctor sent something off his own back but as splinter said, it’s unlikely. I’ve gotten those reviews when I was on illness & sent them to my GP but nothing like that has been sent since.

banie01

Sunshine lollipop wrote: »

No, nothing was sent to be filled in at this point. I’m in the latter stage of the appeals process. It’s puzzling me because they’re sating they received something but it’s not the dates I sent them unless it was logged a month down the line.

I thought maybe the doctor sent something off his own back but as splinter said, it’s unlikely. I’ve gotten those reviews when I was on illness & sent them to my GP but nothing like that has been sent since.

It does seem a little odd in that case but it may well be as simple as something they received being scanned to your file after being left sitting in a pile for a few weeks.

Best of luck with your appeal.

Sunshine lollipop

banie01 wrote: »

It does seem a little odd in that case but it may well be as simple as something they received being scanned to your file after being left sitting in a pile for a few weeks.

Best of luck with your appeal.

I hope so. I phoned to see if they had received all my papers because I was filtering them in & discovered some had been lost in the post so I sent again, & via email just in case. I can’t afford for anything to get lost. I hope it aids my case. Thank you 😊

hawthorne

banie01 wrote: »

Could it have been a medical report request by any chance?
I know when I was on Illness Benefit, I'd receive periodic questionnaires with an additional report request to be dropped to my GP for him to complete and return separately.

Could it be the case that you got one of these, dropped it to your GP and they just sent it back a little late?


On the subject of the Dept of SW and your treating doctors not speaking.
I know in my case, each time a report was needed a letter with the request was forwarded to me for me to drop in to my GP.

That said, I was moved to Invalidity Pension with no need for me to send in any additional medical detail or reports after a recent review with the SW appointed doctor.
So in that sense it would appear that once authorized, medical info is shared.

Those reports have to be sent back by the GP within a strict time frame. As far as I remember it is 14 days. The GP would otherwise loose part of his payment.

banie01

hawthorne wrote: »

Those reports have to be sent back by the GP within a strict time frame. As far as I remember it is 14 days. The GP would otherwise loose part of his payment.

They do and in fairness it's very rare that they are not.
However that wouldn't ever preclude one from being mislaid for a time either in the GPs office or at the SW scanning station and thus being entered into the system late.