MOD compensation and occupational pension schemes: synopses of causation
Synopses of causation, covering a range of injuries and disorders often seen in service personnel and veterans to support decision making.
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has no fault compensation and occupational pension arrangements for the armed forces. An important aspect often affecting pension paid for disorders is the presence or absence of a causal link to service. To ensure fairness, MOD is committed to decision making based on evidence and contemporary medical understanding of the causes of disorders. In support of this aim MOD has commissioned synopses of causation, covering a range of injuries and disorders likely to be seen in service personnel and veterans. Their focus is on what causes a disorder and its likely outcome.
The synopses have a common format, a glossary and are referenced. They were written by medical practitioners independent of MOD and its agencies and validated by external consultants within a relevant field. However, they are not intended as a comprehensive compendium of the literature on the conditions covered.
Documents
- Synopsis of causation: Achilles tendinopathy
- Synopsis of causation: adjustment disorder
- Synopsis of causation: alcohol dependence and alcohol abuse syndrome
- Synopsis of causation: amputation of the lower limb
- Synopsis of causation: amputation of the upper limb
- Synopsis of causation: asthma
- Synopsis of causation: Atherosclerosis
- Synopsis of causation: atrial fibrillation
- Synopsis of causation: bipolar affective disorder
- Synopsis of causation: blast injury to the ear
- Synopsis of causation: blast injury to the thorax and abdomen
- Synopsis of causation: brain tumours (primary)
- Synopsis of causation: burns
- Synopsis of causation: cancer of the bladder
- Synopsis of causation: cancer of the breast
- Synopsis of causation: cancer of the colon and rectum
- Synopsis of causation: cancer of the kidney
- Synopsis of causation: cancer of the lung
- Synopsis of causation: cancer of the oesophagus
- Synopsis of causation: cancer of the pancreas
- Synopsis of causation: cancer of the prostate
- Synopsis of causation: cancer of the stomach
- Synopsis of causation: cancer of the testis
- Synopsis of causation: cardiomyopathies
- Synopsis of causation: carpal tunnel syndrome
- Synopsis of causation: cataract
- Synopsis of causation: chondromalacia patellae
- Synopsis of causation: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Synopsis of causation: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Synopsis of causation: cirrhosis
- Synopsis of causation: clavicle fractures
- Synopsis of causation: cold injury
- Synopsis of causation: compartment syndrome
- Synopsis of causation: conductive hearing loss
- Synopsis of causation: conductive hearing loss
- Synopsis of causation: coronary heart disease
- Synopsis of causation: coronary heart disease
- Synopsis of causation: deep vein thrombosis
- Synopsis of causation: deep vein thrombosis
- Synopsis of causation: depressive disorder
- Synopsis of causation: depressive disorder
- Synopsis of causation: dermatitis
- Synopsis of causation: diabetes mellitus
- Synopsis of causation: diabetes mellitus
- Synopsis of causation: elbow dislocations
- Synopsis of causation: elbow dislocations
- Synopsis of causation: epilepsy
- Synopsis of causation: epilepsy
- Synopsis of causation: eye infections
- Synopsis of causation: eye injuries
- Synopsis of causation: Fibromyalgia
- Synopsis of causation: fractures of the lower limb
- Synopsis of causation: fractures of the upper limb
- Synopsis of causation: fractures of the upper limb
- Synopsis of causation: generalised anxiety disorder
- Synopsis of causation: head injury
- Synopsis of causation: hepatitis and liver injury
- Synopsis of causation: hernia
- Synopsis of causation: hip dislocation
- Synopsis of causation: hip osteoarthritis
- Synopsis of causation: HIV Infection and AIDS
- Synopsis of causation: Hyperlipidaemia
- Synopsis of causation: Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Synopsis of causation: irritable bowel syndrome
- Synopsis of causation: knee (internal derangement)
- Synopsis of causation: knee (ligament damage)
- Synopsis of causation: knee osteoarthiritis
- Synopsis of causation: knee pain (anterior)
- Synopsis of causation: leukaemia (acute Myeloid, incorporating Myelodysplastic Syndromes)
- Synopsis of causation: leukaemia (chronic myeloid)
- Synopsis of causation: low back pain
- Synopsis of causation: lymphoproliferative disorders
- Synopsis of causation: malaria
- Synopsis of causation: melanoma
- Synopsis of causation: mesothelioma
- Synopsis of causation: migraine
- Synopsis of causation: Motor Neurone Disease
- Synopsis of causation: Multiple Sclerosis
- Synopsis of causation: Myeloma and the paraproteinaemias
- Synopsis of causation: myopia
- Synopsis of causation: neck pain
- Synopsis of causation: Non Melanoma skin cancer
- Synopsis of causation: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Synopsis of causation: Osteochondritis Dissecans
- Synopsis of causation: Osteoporosis
- Synopsis of causation: Otitis Externa
- Synopsis of causation: Otosclerosis
- Synopsis of causation: Parkinson’s Disease
- Synopsis of causation: pelvic fractures
- Synopsis of causation: peptic ulcer
- Synopsis of causation: Personality Disorder
- Synopsis of causation: Pes Planus
- Synopsis of causation: Polymyositis, Dermatomyositis, Systemic Sclerosis & Systemic Vasculitis
- Synopsis of causation: Polycythaemia/Myeloproliferative Disease
- Synopsis of causation: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Synopsis of causation: psoriasis
- Synopsis of causation: Raynaud’s Phenomenon
- Synopsis of causation: refractive error
- Synopsis of causation: scapula fractures
- Synopsis of causation: schizophrenia
- Synopsis of causation: sensorineural hearing loss
- Synopsis of causation: shin splints
- Synopsis of causation: shoulder dislocation (recurrent)
- Synopsis of causation: soft tissue injury of the lower limb
- Synopsis of causation: soft tissue injury of the upper limb (shoulder and elbow)
- Synopsis of causation: Spondylolisthesis
- Synopsis of causation: Spondylosis
- Synopsis of causation: sternal fractures
- Synopsis of causation: stroke (including Subarachnoid Haemorrhage)
- Synopsis of causation: tennis elbow
- Synopsis of causation: ultraviolet radiation and the skin
- Synopsis of causation: urinary calculus
- Synopsis of causation: vertigo
- Synopsis of causation: whiplash