HCP and Paper Based Medical Reports

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Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

In respect of DWP response FoI 2123 dated 5 June 2013:

Q1 – Please tell me the specific “support” that Logic Integrated Medical Assessment provides to Nurses and Physiotherapists that enables them to complete medical reports that is not required by Doctors?

For the avoidance of doubt I only want to be provided with a high level description of the specific Logic Integrated Medical Assessment functionality that is relevant to supporting Nurses and Physiotherapists in completing a medical report rather than Doctors. Please do not simply send me a generic document about Logic Integrated Medical Assessment as I do not have sufficient knowledge to be able to extract the relevant information from it.

Q2 – Whilst the DWP helpfully explained that nurses and physiotherapists “...are not trained in the completion of paper based reports. Any change to this would require a successful demonstration that they are able to complete paper based reports to the required standard”, it didn’t provide a meaningful explanation as to why nurses and physiotherapists are not trained in the completion of
paper based reports. Whilst I appreciate that “Any change to this would require a successful demonstration that they are able to complete paper based reports to the required standard” this doesn’t actually explain the reasoning or logic behind the decision not to train nurses and physiotherapists in the completion of paper based reports.

Therefore, please explain specifically why nurses and physiotherapists are not trained to produce paper based reports? (Simply responding that “Any change to this would require a successful demonstration that they are able to complete paper based reports to the required standard” does not answer the question as there must be a reason as to why the relevant training has been provided to Doctors but not to Nurses and Physiotherapists).

Q3 – Other than completing paper based reports what other training are Doctors given that enables them to undertake Domiciliary Visits?

Yours faithfully,

Gerald Jones

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Dear Mr Jones

Please see your FOI response attached for FoI 2588

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Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Department for Work and Pensions's handling of my FOI request 'HCP and Paper Based Medical Reports'.

DWP Answer to Q1
The DWP has not provided the requested information please do so or I will refer the matter to the ICO.

DWP Answer to Q2
The DP has deliberately avoided providing the requested information and I suggest has been dishonest. It is known that WCA can and are carried out at claimant’s homes. The DWP has also previously stated that LiMA is not available to HCP carrying out WCA at claimant’s homes. I suggest that the DWP explain itself and provide the requested information

This is the DWP final chance to comply with the FOIA or I will refer the matter to the ICO.

DWP Answer to Q3
I did not ask where information about Domiciliary Visits is contained, I asked “Other than completing paper based reports what other training are Doctors given that enables them to undertake Domiciliary Visits?”

Please provide the requested information or I will refer the matter to the ICO.

I suggest that the DWP is being deliberately evasive and uncooperative in its handling of this request. I further suggest that such behaviour is a clear breach of the FOIA and that I already have grounds to complain to the ICO. However, in the interest of avoiding adding to the many complaints about the DWP that the ICO is currently dealing with I will give the DWP a further period of 20 working days before complaining to the ICO.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/hc...

Yours faithfully,

Gerald Jones

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Dear Mr Jones
 
Please see the attached response to your recent Freedom of Information
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