§ Mr. Gordon Wilsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will arrange for the provision of non-diagnostic national insurance medical certificates.
§ Mrs. ChalkerNo. Information about the diagnosis is required to give the independent adjudicating authorities a professional opinion that a specific condition is the reason for the absence from402W work. It is also helpful in our procedures for controlling claims and in compiling national morbidity statistics. Arrangements are available to deal with the situation in which the doctor believes it would not be in his patient's best interests for him to know the diagnosis of his complaint.