Please complete the Online Medical Form
When completed, please send it with your evidence to medicals@solihull.gov.uk
If you or someone in your household has an illness or disability which is affected by your current accommodation, we ask you to complete a Medical Questionnaire.
Before you complete your questionnaire, please make sure you understand the following:
Aids/adaptations: If you require aids or adaptations in your current or new home, please tick the boxes for the aids you require. If you need an Occupational Therapist to assess what aids you need, please identify this need on the questionnaire.
Should you require an adapted property, a Housing Occupational Therapist will need to complete an assessment with your household. Solihull Community Housing reserves the right to direct offer adapted properties to customers who best match their needs as per our Allocations Policy.
What happens once you submit your Medical Questionnaire:
Our staff will assess the questionnaire with any supporting information you provide. Examples of supporting information are a statement from your general practitioner, hospital consultant, or occupational therapist.
When you have returned your questionnaire to us, we will assess the information you have provided with our professional Medical Advisors. We make the assessment based upon the impact your current housing circumstances have on your health, or the health of any other member of your household and whether it would improve through a move to alternative accommodation.
We then decide whether the overall impact on the household, or anyone living in the household, is severe enough to give you another priority on medical grounds.
There are two categories of medical need:
Very urgent housing need
This will be decided where you or a member of the household housing situation is having a significant impact on their medical condition such as:
- High health or safety risks requiring a very urgent or immediate need to move. The applicant or household member has a life-threatening condition, which is seriously affected by their current housing.
- The applicant or household member has an immediate life threatening or life limiting illness.
- The applicant or household member is ready to be discharged from hospital, a rehabilitation unit, or residential care into their current permanent accommodation which is not suitable for their medical needs or disability.
- The property is not suitable for any relevant adaptations.
- The applicant or household member has a significant mental health or other health problems that are caused or made worse by their housing situation. This could be property type or the location and this will be resolved by urgent re-housing.
- The applicant or household member requires significant disabled adaptations to meet their needs, and this will not be possible in their current accommodation.
If there is a specific property type recommendation following medical and/or occupational therapy assessment being carried out, you will only be able to place bids on this specific property type. For example, a ground floor property.
If you meet any of the criteria above, you will be placed into Band A. This is a time limited band and will be reviewed after 6 months.
Urgent housing need
This will be decided where current housing conditions are having a negative impact on a person’s physical or mental health and urgent rehousing is required to resolve or alleviate their issues. You will be placed into Band B. This is a time limited band and will be reviewed after 12 months.
Please note, we now only accept medical forms that are completed online.
We are currently experiencing high demand for medical and occupational therapy assessments. We are working to process these as soon as possible but due to the high levels an assessment may take up to 4 weeks to complete.
Timescales
We aim to process your Medical Questionnaire within 10 working days however this may be delayed if we do not receive the required evidence in order for us to process your Medical form.
What is required?
In order for us to process your Medical Form you will need to provide the following evidence:
- Confirmation of diagnosis
- Confirmation of any treatment
- Confirmation of any Medical related benefits (DLA/PIP/ESA/Carers Allowance)
We require a letter from your GP, Consultant or Occupational Therapist outlining the above information and your need to move based on health reasons. All evidence must be dated within three months. Failure to provide evidence could result in us not processing your Medical form.