Dr. Devesh Singh:

It is an interesting question. Do we need to duplicate reports? We do not. We have to look at it again because I think we have on our application forms information to state that if one has any investigation results or specialist reports available, please submit them. That information is quite useful for us.

Another point is that we do not refute diagnoses or statements from specialists. Their job is to treat people and they specialise in that. Our role is to look at the outcome of that medical condition and to assess capacity for work. One can say there may be a difference in speciality, what we are looking at or on opinion, but we are not contradicting specialist reports.