News & Updates

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 [...]

Published: 25 March 2020 We are experiencing a public health crisis which is unprecedented in our lifetimes and we will all need to adapt in order to weather the storm. MedCo has been closely monitoring the advice of the [...]

Published: 25 March 2020 REMOTE EXAMINATIONS Update Recently MedCo lifted the ban on remote examinations. It is understood that a number of medical report providers have indicated a wish to expand their practices by offering examinations by “Skype” in [...]

Published: 23 March 2020 TEMPORARY MEASURES Having considered a number of issues which have been raised by our Users in recent weeks together with the rapid development of Government policy and advice, the MedCo board has decided to introduce [...]

Published 16 March 2020 The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) has today issued a stakeholder Alert; a full copy of which can be read below.   Stakeholder Alert: MedCo: additional rules and audit process for direct medical experts The Government remains committed [...]

Published: 27 February 2020 The Ministry of Justice has announced that the reforms to the RTA lower value claims process, originally scheduled to be implemented in April, will now come into force on 1 August 2020 https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/implementation-of-the-whiplash-reform-programme The full [...]