amnesia

this on the BBC today

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-34185594?post_id=10205073105601865_10205867641304761#_=_

i anticipate there is someone good in northamptonshire to assist this lady on her appeal? 

fit for work indeed…

I saw this this morning and stumbled over what points she’d score on either assessment; the capability for work one or indeed the Daily Living assessment.

Being as it’s a fixed condition can we see such risk as to engage reg 29/35?

I would guess she might have some issues engaging socially and getting around in unfamiliar places and cooking could be risky if she has no short-term memory.

I would also think she might need help learning (new) tasks, initiating and completing action, coping with change, getting about , social engagement. She might be a risk to others in the workplace if she doesn’t carry out her job properly - depending what the job is of course.

Good luck to her.

Very similar to the PIP appeal I represented yesterday for a client with advanced stage MS who has lost significant cognative functions (copious medical evidence) but awarded only SR DL because HCP concluded ‘no significant problems with cognition or memory were identified in the MSE (mental state examination)’. Outcome ER DL & MC!

Its just all to familiar!