Do You Want to Submit Your Housing Medical Assessment Form?

You must complete a medical assessment form for the following few cases:

• You are an applicant for joining the housing register
• You happen to be in social housing with a certain registered provider and trying to apply for a transfer list
• You may have any medical or disability needs and that must be taken into account while registering your housing application.

While assessing for any medical award all your medical issues will be considered if it has been made worse by virtue of living in your present home.

However, you cannot claim a medical priority award because of pregnancy or any pregnancy-related conditions, or a certain short-term illness from, which you can expect to make a full recovery.

nonmedical has got a team of psychiatrists and doctors who are specialists in housing medical assessments.

They advise on the following cases:

• Homeless-vulnerability
• Housing applications
• Housing transfer cases
• Intentionality

For completion of the medical assessment form, you must provide the entire relevant medical information which can support your application. All medical information is going to be considered.

These will include the following:

• Doctor/Consultant/Hospital letters
• Letters from mental health workers
• Health workers/social services assessments
• OT Housing Assessment
• Education assessments.

How can you get housing points for medical reasons?

The following list illustrates how you will be awarded points on the medical grounds for any council housing:

• If you have any basic functionality needs e.g. help during walking or climbing stairs then you get 32 points
• If your present housing conditions are not good enough to meet your medical needs then you get 10 points
• If you need support and care and you urgently need sheltered or supported housing then you get 30 points
• If you have any requirements for home management then you get 14 points
• If you need a self-care arrangement then you get 16 points
• If you are in need of social need factors then you get 40 points
• If you have any complex needs then you get 20 points
• If you need under-occupation of transfer then you get 10 points.

Also, the following criteria are going to be considered while considering your application for a medical award.

• How your present housing is impacting your health?
• What is the long-term effect on your health?
• What is the present condition of your physical or mental health?

Please understand that your mental health condition is as much responsible to affect your physical condition

• Whether your mental condition is in degenerating conditions?
• Whether your present housing situation is negatively impacting your health?

Conclusion

In case your present house is impacting your mental health negatively then you have to explain how all these are impacting on your health.

If no negative impact is present on your health, then you will become ineligible for any medical award. You must explain whether anything possible that can improve your situation.

Also, whether there is anything a certain statutory body such as Social Services/Local Authority/NHS is able to do to improve your current housing, so that you may remain where you are.