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PIP Consultation report form query
I would like to find out if there is any guidance pertaining to the time scale that PIP consultation report has to be completed by? An example is one client had a consultation at a medical centre on 25/02/2014 and lasted 45 minutes. whilst at end of report displayed same health care professional i.e. Nurse completed report on 7/05/2014 at 12.52hrs. And another report stated 24 hour clock time of 23.55hrs for another client I took to appeal. Surley, there must be some rule here to govern the reports being written up and linked to fairness for all parties. How fair can a report be on aperson they saw nearly 3 months earlier let alone the many others seen by same examiner. Does anyone have any info or experience tackling this issue?
I haven’t seen anything like that but could it be that this was a report that had been returned to the HCP for rewriting following an audit?
I’ve noticed that the DWP has recently written to a couple of my clients whose report has been delayed by audits explaining that this is the reason for the delay. I can’t see how a report that is actually written up 3 months after the consultation can have much probative value if the reason was just that the HCP never got round to it.
I doubt it. In another life I did an FOI about similar at ATOS; ESA85 reports completed several hours after the claimant had left but the procedure came back that it was perfectly normal that examiners would go for a fag/brew/lunchbreak between seeing the client and pressing the “finish” button. As I recall I got the Lima handbook as part of it with a stern copyright warning not to distribute it; before Comm’r Williams demanded they share it,
I doubt it. In another life I did an FOI about similar at ATOS; ESA85 reports completed several hours after the claimant had left but the procedure came back that it was perfectly normal that examiners would go for a fag/brew/lunchbreak between seeing the client and pressing the “finish” button. As I recall I got the Lima handbook as part of it with a stern copyright warning not to distribute it; before Comm’r Williams demanded they share it,
3 months is a pretty long fag or lunch break though!