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Doctors note

Hi I'm just wounding if u have to pay for a doctors note for the tribunal as got told it's like £20 for a full report or somethingGP phoning me some time soon.
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I tried to get my medical file and was told I would have to pay per page ..i think they said 50p each page and I didnt know some Drs charge £25 ...i was charged that for a Drs letter that the DWP insisted I got only to find it was dismissed.
Now we have the DWP telling the claimant to go get a GP letter and pay for it themselves! A complete turn round.
As your medical records will, according to @Peasmold_01 only confirm your diagnosis, I am at a loss as to why they would be of any use!
Generally tribunals adjourn for medical records when they don’t wish to address a complex issue and fancy leaving it to a different tribunal. It’s also a tactic used by judges to avoid an appellant losing a case where the judge would otherwise be outvoted on some stupid basis. Generally GP medical records show what could be technically described as “**** all”. However, the things which accompany those records will often cast things in a new light e.g. tests results which contradict those done by a HCP or even consultant letters.
On the other hand why pay anything for consultants letters when you should already have copies yourself and, if not, just write to the consultant and request whichever ones you need. It’s rare that they will charge at all.
Whilst I remember, the point re: charging what they feel like is also incorrect. See https://www.rightsnet.org.uk/forums/viewthread/13402/ fir a nice summary as to why.
Finally, it’s worth noting that GP records tend to go against appellants more than they go for them. Many is the appellant who claims not to have gone on holiday recently only for the tribunal to read that they went to their GP to ask for extra meds because they were going away! I’ve a long list of those horror stories.
If the OP wants to win a PIP appeal they need to focus primarily on their anecdotal evidence.