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  • Roddy
    Roddy Community member Posts: 445 Pioneering
    The way that we are being treated by the DWP and their so-called medical professionals, is incompetent at the very least. Distorted & fabricated information is commonplace as so too are lies and total disdain. The already sick are being made even more ill and solely due to the stress, the neglect and the sense of being victimised and kicked in the head by a bunch of blinkered muppets in an office. Folks that have had issues all of their life find themselves being awarded zero points, stripped of all assistance and being signed-up for work. Don't work, you don't get. They may as well chuck us all in the Army. Added to this that the retirements age is increased as soon as you reach 'the retirement age' and once again you're brought-back to book. 

    If the DWP cannot and do not believe the signed statements of our Drs, our Consultants, or Hospital Specialists, our Care & Support Workers, our Medical Diagnosis, the Treatments, the Operations, the constant tests we receive etc. & etc. then why bother employing such people in the NHS or even have an NHS for that matter?  NOBODY enjoys being ill, sick, disabled or incapable. NOBODY at all, and yet these callous DWP decision makers most definitely enjoy the power of being able to make our lives even more unbearable. 

    Just like some of you, I was fortunate enough to have spent some time working my bones off 24/7 and doing everything 'normal' for their want of the word. Further down the line, I had to give up work to single handed care for my two children and my mother all of whom had a variety of different & serious health issues. DWP altered my life in an instant, and they're still having a detrimental effect on my life some 30 years later now that I am seriously sick, ill, elderly and disabled myself. I've had to stand back and watch as my Son with severe special needs has been stripped of his care, his care centres and his relatively limited independence. My Daughter, of 29 years been unable to work since leaving her special needs school and hounded by the Jobcentre and losing benefit, and now myself: Living alone in a care & support sheltered accommodation for the elderly, sick and disabled and unable to stand, sit comfortably, insomnia and constantly in pain of one kind or another. Hospitalised for 3 months. Convalesced for 15 months. On the priority list for a liver transplant and suffering from an incurable bone disease. DWP grant me ZERO points following an assessment, seize back my mobility car, and my already breadline  monthly income is halved. Report for work, they demand... MONTHS down the line a court with common sense and decency awards me 19 points instantly overnight and I'm still awaiting confirmation of my awarded higher rate of PIP Mobility. 

    NOBODY has any idea what I've been made to endure at the hands of DWP , but you can certainly guess and you'd be 99.9% correct as you've been there yourselves in your own terrible way. If I could only move from my chair unaided, stand for a few minutes before passing out, I'd be outside No 10 with a baseball bat. 
  • wildlife
    wildlife Community member Posts: 1,293 Pioneering
    @Roddy Yes most of us do know what you've been through. I certainly do. I had to ring 999 a week after reading my assessment lies. I'd had 5 Occular Migraines where you loose your vision and see wavy lies. My hubby insisted i get checked out to make sure it wasn't a stroke. 7 Months later I ended up at A & E at 10 pm after a 7 hour panic attack. Ended up on medication for the first time for anxiety and still having panic attacks 2 years after my report popped through the letter box. I've got loads of other things wrong with me including pain 24/7. Nine tummy ops and 5 road accidents didn't help but according to my assessor I had no upper body problems. Most of my disabilities are things you can't see so i rely on evidence or being believed. I'm waiting for my son's ESA report any day now in the post. Dreading it as expecting another battle...    
  • Roddy
    Roddy Community member Posts: 445 Pioneering
    wildlife said:
    @Roddy Yes most of us do know what you've been through. I certainly do. I had to ring 999 a week after reading my assessment lies. I'd had 5 Occular Migraines where you loose your vision and see wavy lies. My hubby insisted i get checked out to make sure it wasn't a stroke. 7 Months later I ended up at A & E at 10 pm after a 7 hour panic attack. Ended up on medication for the first time for anxiety and still having panic attacks 2 years after my report popped through the letter box. I've got loads of other things wrong with me including pain 24/7. Nine tummy ops and 5 road accidents didn't help but according to my assessor I had no upper body problems. Most of my disabilities are things you can't see so i rely on evidence or being believed. I'm waiting for my son's ESA report any day now in the post. Dreading it as expecting another battle...    
    It truly is ridiculous AND horrendous. I don't know of anybody that hasn't or isn't going through the same with these blasted assessors. Even some of those with terminal illness etc. Even when the DWP finally admit 'that they made a few errors' there's still no apology or any admission to their catalogue of neglect, mental abuse and total disdain...

    Do you know, that even one of my own assessors had their own disabled child's entitlement removed... The DWP should lose their entitlement to any wages. They are unfit for purpose. Period. 
  • Government_needs_reform
    Government_needs_reform Community member Posts: 859 Pioneering
    edited February 2019
    @roddy Quite right, this is absolutely disgraceful and discrimination towards disabled.

    As a stated fact these assessments are very wrong, they believe a lie is the truth, and a lie is the truth and will bend it in any direction to suit them, I also get what the DWP do this for it's a form of persecution and punishment for being ill, disabled, they don't worry how much it costs, or about saving money.

    The bottom line IS....

    Im afraid nothing will ever change from this hostile environment, this has become a punishment process and a conveyor belt.
    ⬇️
    I created one of the campaign election videos for Labour, and Jeremy Corbyn,
    This is a new version of Emeli Sande, Hope "You Are Not Alone
    I highlighted everything that's wrong with this country from benefits, NHS, UC etc, but now we have to put up with the hate now that is the Tories. 

    You can see the video here.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P5o8hRHh9IY


  • Roddy
    Roddy Community member Posts: 445 Pioneering
    @Government_needs_reform

    It appears to me that the only forward with this, is to take legal action, and by this I mean individually and not as a group. I am in the process myself however it takes an awful lot of work, time and expense and there's still no guarantee at the end of it all. I must have already spent-out £1000+ on having photocopies done for me and to even Protectively Issue my claim at court cost £2,800. Yes, I'm thankfully covered by Legal Help, but if your benefits have been stopped its extremely difficult to obtain. 

    The crucial thing of course is who to sue? The Assessor? The DWP? The Council perhaps? The Ombudsmen or even the NHS itself?  Answer: Mission Impossible

    In a round-about way, my own situation can be proportioned to my Housing Provider as it was they that provided ALL of those mentioned above with inaccurate and misleading information about me. It is hoped, that this will have a Domino Effect on them all. 'Hoped' being the word, though I have a very good chance of winning my Discrimination case, says my specialist team of legal representatives... 
  • michfinch
    michfinch Community member Posts: 173 Pioneering
    Oh oh dear I’m on the Naughty Step for not attending the Centre which tells you are fit for work overruling my Dr, their
    Psychologist and  my Specialist! I’ve got to give reasons why I didn’t attend.... 
  • Government_needs_reform
    Government_needs_reform Community member Posts: 859 Pioneering
    edited February 2019
    Roddy said:
    @Government_needs_reform

    It appears to me that the only forward with this, is to take legal action, and by this I mean individually and not as a group. I am in the process myself however it takes an awful lot of work, time and expense and there's still no guarantee at the end of it all. I must have already spent-out £1000+ on having photocopies done for me and to even Protectively Issue my claim at court cost £2,800. Yes, I'm thankfully covered by Legal Help, but if your benefits have been stopped its extremely difficult to obtain. 

    The crucial thing of course is who to sue? The Assessor? The DWP? The Council perhaps? The Ombudsmen or even the NHS itself?  Answer: Mission Impossible

    In a round-about way, my own situation can be proportioned to my Housing Provider as it was they that provided ALL of those mentioned above with inaccurate and misleading information about me. It is hoped, that this will have a Domino Effect on them all. 'Hoped' being the word, though I have a very good chance of winning my Discrimination case, says my specialist team of legal representatives... 

    @roddy Yes it does make sense doing it as an individual case, I certainly wish you well.

    Touch wood ive not got this problem, for suffered at the hands of this system, ive been very lucky so far "Touch Wood" my PIP from DLA is ongoing and will see me into retirement, my ESA Support Group Just got renewed at the end of 2018.

    The only issue I will be challenge with is migrating to UC? I will drag that process out for as long as I can then tell them to shove it. I will then try and manage on my PIP till retirement if I can.

    I count myself very fortunate mine was all Paper Based, I did supply a lot of undisputable functional evidence, and forced them to call my Medical people but they didn't I offered it to them on a plate so there was no disputing what evidence I sent in even the DWP Decision Maker even stated "I agree you have great difficulty" 

    As ive said I do campaigns to help others that are not so fortunate as me to get the right result and I will carry on doing it too, I will force the truth down this governments throat if it kills me.

    Im and have been working in the background preparing evidence from various contacts through my campaigning, and I have some pretty good evidence.

    I just can't believe how this is really affecting so many it's absolutely disconnected and discrimination.

    I just feel so sorry for many disabled like yourself that are suffering at the mercy of the DWP.
    ⬇️
    I created one of the campaign election videos for Labour, and Jeremy Corbyn,
    This is a new version of Emeli Sande, Hope "You Are Not Alone
    I highlighted everything that's wrong with this country from benefits, NHS, UC etc, but now we have to put up with the hate now that is the Tories. 

    You can see the video here.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P5o8hRHh9IY


  • Roddy
    Roddy Community member Posts: 445 Pioneering
    @Government_needs_reform

    Unless the current legislation regarding UC is overturned, ALL people entitled to Benefits will come under UC. PIP claimants however will not be affected as such, but then again all DWP payments will be made monthly... The obvious problem, seems to be is the transition, as UC have no say as such with ESA or vice versa. You are simply paid by UC at their rate until or unless YOU can provide THEM with written confirmation from ESA.  Also during this transition, your entitlements to other benefits can be effected, like Housing Benefit, and in some cases your entitlement to free prescriptions! I had my own stopped for example which caused me all kinds of grief. 

    It appears to be a smoother transition for those with permanent life-long disabilities, but not always. The DWP has made this their own problem which in turn has meant lengthy delays and responses an many hours on a telephone and getting nowhere fast. The additional problem is that you never get to speak with the same person, and from the moment you've had your time, they are onto the next, then the next and then the next. Sometimes of course, they've forgotten what was said to who or when. It's total confusion all around. 

    Promised call-backs never happen.  Expected/promised mail never arrives and they even claim not receiving your own, even if its sent recorded delivery. 

    I received letters dated two weeks prior, giving me 10 days to reply and requests for bank statements, medical records, the whole caboodle as provided to them some 4 weeks before. It is administration gone AWOL at each and every level.

    If we ran our lives and conducted ourselves in the same ways as they do, we'd all be pushing-up daisies by now or locked-up. 
  • Government_needs_reform
    Government_needs_reform Community member Posts: 859 Pioneering
    @roddy as ive said ive had quite an easy ride to be honest, yes I fully understand the process of how UC works and its payments. Ive managed to hold a good few £s back for any eventuality and problems that may arise.

    permanent life-long disabilities.....Spot on and they full know well my situation regarding those, hence my PIP being ongoing. Capita did my Paper Based assessment and not a single lie, everything was well justified and documented even stated No further reviews needed. 

    Yes I fit the ESA exemption criteria on 4 accounts but they didn't put me on that YET...
    Not worrying to much regarding UC.

    Heres a few pic, messages I made for this corrupted system.





    ⬇️
    I created one of the campaign election videos for Labour, and Jeremy Corbyn,
    This is a new version of Emeli Sande, Hope "You Are Not Alone
    I highlighted everything that's wrong with this country from benefits, NHS, UC etc, but now we have to put up with the hate now that is the Tories. 

    You can see the video here.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P5o8hRHh9IY


  • Roddy
    Roddy Community member Posts: 445 Pioneering
  • Roddy
    Roddy Community member Posts: 445 Pioneering
  • Roddy
    Roddy Community member Posts: 445 Pioneering

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