Briefing letter to a treating specialist

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Dear [to complete],

Thank you for continuing to treat me. I have a live DVA claim ([to complete]) and I need a report that DVA can actually use.

The question DVA has asked / the decision this report needs to support
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Relevant history (from my records — please correct anything that does not match your clinical view)
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Could the report please address, as far as you can:

1. Diagnosis.
2. Relationship to service and/or aggravation (including by later events if that is your opinion).
3. Current functional impact, written against the following descriptors / tables where you are comfortable doing so:
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4. Treatment already provided, whether the condition is stable, and prognosis.
5. Capacity for work, study, and vocational rehabilitation if you have a view.

I am not asking you to be my advocate. I am asking you to write a complete clinical opinion so a non-clinician delegate is not left to fill gaps. Please bill this as a report if that is your usual practice.

Yours faithfully
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