Catalogue description Department of Health and Social Security: Social Security Medical Division: Registered Files

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Reference: BN 108
Title: Department of Health and Social Security: Social Security Medical Division: Registered Files
Description:

This series contains registered files of the Social Security Medical Division which was responsible for the system of medical examination of claimants.

The following prefixes exist:

MVB Policy

MVC Medical

MVD Meetings

MVE Statistics
Date: 1970-1993
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988
Physical description: 7 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2004 Department for Work and Pensions
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Social Security Medical Division was responsible for the management of full and part-time medical staff based in Social Security regions, medical aspects of social security statistics and medical evidence on incapacity for work amongst other tasks. It provided specialist medical advice to the Social Security divisions and was divided into branches; MEDSSM1 benefit schemes, MEDSSM2 prescribed respiratory industrial diseases etc. and regional offices as well as pneumoconiosis medical panels.

The Medical Division's main role was to give advice, with or without a medical examination, on benefit claims to help the Decision-Maker reach a fair and proper decision on eligibility for benefit.

When the Benefits Agency was formed in 1991, the Medical Division was renamed the Benefits Agency Medical Service (BAMS) and formed part of the Next Steps agency. Later the service was contracted out to SEMA Group Medical Services and became known as Medical Services.

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