Description
Medical condition classification is based on the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, published by the World Health Organisation.
Medical condition is based on evidence provided at the start of the claim, this in itself does not confer entitlement to Employment Support Allowance and may not represent a claimants most recent medical condition.
For reporting purposes, the disability conditions as recorded on the Employment Support Allowance Benefit system have been mapped to reflect as closely as possible the appropriate ICD10 code.
Where someone has more than one diagnosis or disabling condition, only the predominant one is reported on in these statistics, which should be the most predominant condition.
Classification
Applicable to: all claimants:
- Certain Infectious and Parasitic diseases
- Neoplasms
- Diseases of the Blood and Blood forming organs and certain diseases involving the immune mechanism
- Endocrine, Nutritional and Metabolic diseases
- Mental and Behavioural disorders
- Diseases of the Nervous System
- Diseases of the Eye and Adnexa
- Diseases of the Ear and Mastoid Process
- Diseases of the Circulatory System
- Diseases of the Respiratory System
- Diseases of the Digestive System
- Diseases of the Skin and Subcutaneous System
- Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System and Connective Tissue
- Diseases of the Genito-urinary System
- Pregnancy. Childbirth and the Puerperium
- Certain conditions originating in the Perinatal period
- Congenital Malformations, Deformations and Chromosomal Abnormalities
- Symptoms, signs and abnormal Clinical and Laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified
- Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes
- External causes of morbidity and mortality
- Factors influencing Health Status and contact with Health Services
- Codes for special purposes
- Claimants without any diagnosis code on the system
- Not available
Total number of categories: 24
Quality Statement
In support of the claim, a fit note and GP’s address and phone number must be supplied by the claimant.
The medical condition reported in the data is drawn from the fit notes supplied in the Assessment Phase and are transcribed from these by a benefit administrator. It is possible that errors can occur in the recording of the condition (both initially and in inputting onto the computer system).
DWP have recently improved the methodology for the publication of high level medical condition/ICD codes for ESA. Improvements have been made to the way administrative codes are mapped to the ICD framework. Statistics will be available for data as at February 2018 and for future quarters. We have no plans to reproduce a backseries as this would be extremely resource intensive, so we believe it is better to use the resource to develop new statistics that have been requested. For further information see background information note.