Mental Health and Benefits Handbook 1st edition - with new materialAppendix 3: Work capability assessment physical descriptors 1. Physical mobility
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1. Physical mobility
This activity covers ‘mobilising unaided by another person with or without a walking stick, manual wheelchair or other aid if such aid is normally, or could reasonably be, worn or used’.
Descriptors
Points
(a) Cannot, unaided by another person, either:
(i) mobilise more than 50 metres on level ground without stopping in order to avoid significant discomfort or exhaustion; or
(ii) repeatedly mobilise 50 metres within a reasonable timescale because of significant discomfort or exhaustion.
15 points*
(b) Cannot, unaided by another person, mount or descend two steps even with the support of a handrail.
9 points
(c) Cannot, unaided by another person, either:
(i) mobilise more than 100 metres on level ground without stopping in order to avoid significant discomfort or exhaustion; or
(ii) repeatedly mobilise 100 metres within a reasonable timescale because of significant discomfort or exhaustion.
9 points
(d) Cannot, unaided by another person, either:
(i) mobilise more than 200 metres on level ground without stopping in order to avoid significant discomfort or exhaustion; or
(ii) repeatedly mobilise 200 metres within a reasonable timescale because of significant discomfort or exhaustion.
6 points
(e) None of the above applies.
0 points
*If you satisfy the 15-point descriptor (a) above, you qualify as having LCWRA.