Petition for health related PIP, DLA, ESA, AA, etc

Puja
Puja Scope Member Posts: 99 Contributor
in Benefits and income
Please sign & share if able too thank you all
It’s definitely worth taking a minute signing ✍️ it especially if you or someone you know/look after is on or had issues with ESA or PIP etc 

End assessments and consider disability benefit claims on medical advice alone

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  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 64,463 Championing
    No signature from me sorry. There’s another discussion related to this on here today. A GP’s knowledge of anyone’s medical condition is always very limited. They don’t spend any time with you to know how you prepare food/wash/dress/undress/engage with others etc etc. 
    If I relied on my GP then I would have never been awarded PIP, that’s quite a scary thought!! 
    With only 13,000 signatures I can’t see this getting anywhere either, the same as all other petitions related to benefits and assessments. 
  • Puja
    Puja Scope Member Posts: 99 Contributor
    I didn’t see a previous thread, I did search this petition?

    see I thought it meant all evidence available and look more holistically at all medical records eg mental health, physical health, social care, etc where assesments may previously have been done etc but my gp knows me pretty well I'm very open with my difficulties with him/them and am on dosette boxes and have seen a dietician etc
    and have regular bloods and scans and various appointments with different depts and consultants so I guess its different for everyone and if you don’t then it would be harder based on medical evidence alone. 

    I will try and find the thread you referred too but I think ADP in scotland is paper based?

    But I don’t know if we’re allowed to discuss Scotland as SCOPE only covers England and Wales 
    but yeah I’m not sure how its been for them with their system now instead of PIP.

    I would be interested on their stats compared to ours on how many people were awarded and rates, MR and tribunal etc 
  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 64,463 Championing
    Scope covers the whole country, not just England and Wales. We have members from Scotland and N.Ireland too. Scope have no rules against any discussion regarding Scotland. 
    Those claiming AA don’t usually have assessments and most people that claimed DLA didn’t either.
    ADP is still very new and only started in the summer I think so it’s unlikely there will be any stats for this at the moment. There’s only been a couple of members that have mentioned this. I can’t imagine anyone had even reached the stage of Tribunal yet. 
    A GP may know things in general about your health conditions but it’s very unlikely they will know how your conditions would affect you against the 12 PIP activities. 
    Medical evidence isn’t needed for a successful PIP award either,

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