move on medical grounds

19steven68

Hi and good morning to all. My name is steve i'm 56 and male. My query is i have applied twice to be moved on medical grounds and twice refused by poplar harca housing association.

I have emphysema as well as other mental and physical ailments. I live in a maisonette on the 2nd floor with no lift and breathless when using the stairs. I get a letter saying i did not reach the threshold in order to be moved on medical grounds and stamped not signed by chief medical officer. Who is this chief medical officer?

Rachel_Scope

Hi @19steven68. Sorry no one was able to answer you. The Chief Medical Officer would be Professor Chris Witty. Have you appealed the decision?

Needhelpandadvice

@19steven68 I am possibly the best person here to help and advise you. However, people do not like my honesty especially Scope, they want me to be civil, and what ever else, putting rainbow coloured sprinkles on everything.

I am in the same boat as yourself, I have COPD due to serving Queen and Country, and I was on a second floor building but it had a lift, I then was due to move into a ground floor, but instead it turned out to be a first floor but because it was in the town that I love, I did not turn it down.

However, the first night I was there, I knew that I could not manage the stairs, so I have been trying for the past couple of years for a ground floor flat.

However, the person that I dealt with which got me the move, was called a Home Move Plus Officer, but it might be called something different in your area.

So you need to see if you have a housing officer, and then a home move plus officer.

I am not going to sugar coat things for you, I had my housing officer say, well I have family that have COPD so I know everything about it, and he said you have no chance of a bungalow. I bid on three bungalows, the first time I got nowhere, the second time I was rejected, I got in contact with my housing association, oh not enough information about you needing a ground floor, so I got more medical evidence. I was rejected for a second time, even though I had provided more evidence.

The housing officer is discriminating against me, but sadly I cannot proof it, but they moved my former neighbour, who was already in a ground floor with a wet room, but she put on an act because she had a bit of anti social behaviour to put up with.

You are going to have to fight, and make sure that they are not discriminating against you, but that can be very hard to prove.

I hope that you have more luck than I am having, but you need to ask yourself are they discriminating against me? Do you play loud music etc etc etc.

If that is the case, the chances of them re homing you are slim, I do not play music, but I feel that they are discriminating against me, so the chances of me getting a ground floor are slim, unless I want to move towns again, but I have moved to a town that I love and feel happy in, which was going to be my forever move.

Sadly, I am going to be bluntly honest with you, and say that you might not get a move, I might not get a move.

So, you are just going to have to deal with it as much as possible, I know that it is not easy and trust me I know 100% but you need to face reality, and try and cope as best as you can.

People say about discrimination laws, but these people are living in cloud cuckoo land.

Community_Scope

Hi @Needhelpandadvice. We expect all of our members to act in a civil way and show support for others. Please be aware that there are many members who may find such blunt comments upsetting.