News & Updates

Published: 18 September 2020 System Improvements The planned changes to improve the system are now live.   What changes have we made? In light of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, we have updated the case data requirements to allow experts [...]

Published: 3 September 2020 In March 2020 as part of its Coronavirus update, MedCo confirmed that new MRO registration applications would not be accepted until further notice and the processing of existing applications was suspended. After careful consideration, it has been agreed [...]

Published:13 August 2020 On the 23rd March MedCo introduced a series of temporary measures to help during the Covid-19 pandemic.  These included the lifting of the ban on remote video examinations. Due to the ongoing nature of the Covid-19 pandemic it [...]

Published: 3 July 2020 REMOTE EXAMINATIONS – REVISED GUIDANCE version 5.0 - 3 July 2020 The ban on remote video medical examinations for the purposes of MedCo reports will remain suspended until further notice.  Face to face examinations may [...]

Eshot to users: 1 June 2020 Published: 10 June 2020   MedCo provides Direct Medical Experts (DMEs) and Medical Report Organisations (MROs) with the facility to close cases.  This can be completed by either uploading case data following an examination or [...]

Published: 9 June 2020 CORONAVIRUS UPDATE - MRO performance against SLAs   In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic, MedCo recently announced temporary measures including removing the ban on remote examinations and deferral of face to face examinations. Further [...]

Published: 4 May 2020 Covid-19 and Remote Examinations MedCo has continued to monitor developments during the current pandemic crisis and listened to feedback from Users.  We have also monitored Government and Public Health England advice. At this time, the [...]

Published: 21 April 2020 The Government has today announced that the personal injury reforms which were due to be implemented in August this year have been postponed to April 2021. Read the full Written Statement

Published: 31 March 2020 Last week MedCo temporarily removed the ban on remote examinations and issued associated guidance.  In response to feedback from Users, and further advice from the Ministry of Justice, the MedCo board has today issued revised guidance  (link [...]

Published: 31 March 2020 ANNUAL REGISTRATION FEES DUE ON/AFTER 6TH APRIL 2020 On 23rd March MedCo issued announcements setting out temporary measures which are being introduced during the current COVID-19 pandemic.  In that document we indicated that a further notice on annual [...]