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<p>All healthcare professionals carrying out assessments receive comprehensive training
in disability analysis, which includes the evaluation of how medical conditions affect
claimants in their day-to-day activities. Prior to carrying out an assessment, assessors
refresh their knowledge of any condition with which they are not fully familiar.</p><p>
</p><p>Benefit entitlement is determined by the Department’s decision makers, who
receive extensive training to enable them to evaluate a claim and assess a claimant’s
needs. In order to make a decision on benefit entitlement the decision maker considers
all the available evidence, including the reports received from the healthcare professional
and any further evidence, which may include reports from GPs, hospital doctors and
other clinicians.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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