I was wondering if any one could give me any advice, my husband is a insulin dependant diabetic and is been off work with mental health problems for 2 and half years now. He has put in for ill health retirement and been refused twice even though his consultant, family doctor and various other medical professionals have supported him. He was admitted into a physiciatrict hospital after an insulin overdose in January and he is currently in hospital with his diabetes. His firm which is a big organisation sent us for a secong opinion I had a copy of the report and the company did, these reports slightly differ.and the consultant could not confirm whether my husband will be able to work or not.
I have requested my husbands medical reports from the companies occupational health which I have recieved but unfortunately they are all not there. All i recieved was a letter off the mental health consultant to the worksdr supporting him on ill retirement dated 27.09.2010, a letter off the works Dr to the pension trustees dated 9.11.2010, Aletter to the works dr off Dr family doctor dated sep 2009,a letter off family doctor supporting my husband with ill health dated 26 may 2010,. and lastly a e mail off the personnel dept to the works dr l dated 1.6.2010 asking for a copy of thesecond opinion report from Dudley as it had been destroyed by the pensions guy in the company ( i think i recieved this by mistake). I also am aware that there have been other reports sent regarding my husband, one off his cpn that I handed in personally, one off the DWP , and one off ( diabetic nurse). Looking at what reports I have recieved my husband has had alot of support not only off his consultant, but off various other people, who see my husband on a reguler basis, but has still been turned down. I personally think that the works dr will never support my husband, no matter how many medical reports we have. .
Also back in April i emailed you to ask why the works dr l hadn,t requested reports off my husbands diabetic consultant, and was told that they would getthe works dr to answer my request, but unfortunately i haven,t heard anything yet.
After my husband had been turned down for ihr even though his consultant supported him. His consultant decided to get a second opinion and he has also supported my husband, ( which I have a copy off). I thought i would see the outcome of my husbands hospital stay before sending it in.
even though my husband is currently off sick i thought he was to be informed of everything that is going on within the company. It has come to our attention the company opened a window for early release again.
I have sent an e mail to the company telling them of these grievances and am awaiting their reply.
Originally my husband had the union supporting him but apparently the union guy was set to retire and the company have enhanced his package to stay on a bit longer so he doesn,t want to rock the boat, so basically i am fighting our corner against this big company.
Lastly back in 2009 when my hudsband was 50 the company were also then at the time offering early release to their workers and sent a letter out to everyone with a enhanced package, this would have been great for us as my husband could have started drawing his pension because then the pension age was 50. We did not recieve this letter a year later and so he couldn,t draw his pension because it was changed to 55. I complained the company and they called us in and apologised and said it was human error but couldn,t do anything about it, but unfortunately that doesn,t help us.
I have now managed to get more reports off my husbands consultants and they all support him for ihr. These reports have been presented to the company, and we went to meet the works doctor today I was utterly gobsmacked with the outcome. One mental health consultant said my husband is treatment resistant icd code f32.2 and would support hom for ill health another mental health consultant said that my husbands mental health is chronic and my husband is permantly disabled and should retire from work early on medical grounds and finally mu husbands diabetic consultant supports him as well for ill health, not onlyis my husband a diabetic and mental health issues he also has peripheral neuropathy. The works doctor basically said that he wants to clarify what the two mental health consultants say because he doesn,t belive what they say and doesn,t belive my husband is ill. I would be grateful for any advice you could give
