Has your employer or the pension scheme administrator rejected your application for ill-health retirement, and are you considering an appeal against the outcome? 

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The appeal process can be complex, daunting and stressful. Typically, additional medical evidence will be required to support your case. While you may obtain a medical report from your GP or hospital specialist for this purpose, a comprehensive and specific occupational health report from an independent consultant occupational physician, addressing the specific ill-health retirement criteria/rules, is often more likely to be advantageous to the outcome of your appeal.

 

​Our consultant occupational physician has extensive knowledge and experience of various pension schemes, their ill-health retirement criteria and appeal process.

 

We will​

• review the available evidence, including medical and occupational health reports,

• carefully analyse the reasons given by the scheme's medical advisor for not supporting your ill-health retirement application,

• arrange an occupational health consultation and

• provide an independent report.

 

The report may strengthen your appeal or help you consider whether to appeal against the outcome. Please refer to our terms and conditions for this service.

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If you wish to request an assessment and report, please complete an online self-referral form using the following link: IHR Appeal - Self-referral form

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Here is some information on a few common pension schemes -  the list is not exhaustive.

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• NHS pension scheme

• Local Government Pension Scheme

• ​Civil Service Pension Scheme

• Railway Pension Scheme

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