News
The latest information from DWP that relates to you and your patients – including additions to the DWP health and work pages.
| 01/10/09 |
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| 24/08/09 |
Medical certificates – Employment and Support Allowance appeals Jobcentre Plus has received a number of queries from GPs about the need to provide medical certificates to patients who are appealing against the decision to disallow Employment and Support Allowance. Medical evidence is required to support benefit claims at all times unless the Work Capability Assessment threshold is met. This requirement does not change while a patient is appealing and is no different to the arrangements which applied under Incapacity Benefit. |
| 28/05/09 | |
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| 17/02/09 | DWP Medical (factual) Reports – A Guide to Completion
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| 25/11/08 | Improving health and work: changing lives, published on 25 November 2008, is the Government’s response to Working for a Healthier Tomorrow, Dame Carol Black’s Review of the health of Britain’s working age population.
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| 16/10/08 | Employment and Support Allowance Medical Reports – A Guide to Completion. |
| 28/07/08 |
Royal College of Surgeons of England launch consensus-based return to work guidance for some of the most common surgical procedures.
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| 25/07/08 | This new DWP health and work site launched. |
| 17/03/08 |
Dame Carol Black’s review of the health of Britain’s working age population published.
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