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  • Published: 24 February 2020 The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) has today issued a stakeholder Alert; a full copy of which can be read below.    Stakeholder Alert: Revised MRO Qualifying Criteria - Stakeholder Survey The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) response [...]

    Published on 24 February 2020

  •   Published 18 February 2020 2020 Charging Policy The charging policy survey closed on 13th February with over 600 responses received. These will be analysed but that process may take some time.  Furthermore, any changes to our current method of charging [...]

    Published on 18 February 2020

  • Published: 4 February 2020 Reforms I am pleased to report that MedCo has continued to prepare, and is on target, for implementation of the reforms in April 2020. Testing of the recently constructed application interface between the MedCo portal and [...]

    Published on 4 February 2020

  • Published: 7 January 2020 Notice of revisions to Guidance on MoJ Qualifying Criteria, Audit Guide and MRO Technical Data Aid MedCo has today written to MRO users to notify them of 3 updated documents: An updated Guidance on MoJ Qualifying Criteria (‘Guidance’) [...]

    Published on 7 January 2020

  • Published: 17 December 2019 Updated: 21 June 2021 MedCo has today published two documents. The MedCo Rules and MedCo Policies Document have been produced to make the various rules and policies for MedCo easily accessible. MedCo Rules MedCo's Articles [...]

    Published on 17 December 2019

  • Published: 19 November 2019 Following a number of enquiries regarding the provision of treatment in Road Traffic Accident (RTA) soft tissue injury claims, MedCo are clarifying the rules in relation to this below: Where a first fixed recoverable cost [...]

    Published on 19 November 2019

  • Published: 1 October 2019 MedCo has today issued medical experts and Medical Reporting Organisations (MROs) with guidelines relating to the volume and duration of medical examinations. The guidelines have been created based on feedback, case data analysis and a [...]

    Published on 1 October 2019

  • Future Provision of Medical Reports in Road Traffic Accident (RTA) related Claims Consultation Published: 5 September 2019 The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has today published the Government response to its consultation on the provision of medical reports. This will [...]

    Published on 5 September 2019

  • Published: 6 August 2019 Accounts/Budget The Board has recently approved the audited accounts for year ended December 2018.  These showed a loss of £99,854 and retained earnings at the end of the year of £5,078,588.  So far this financial year [...]

    Published on 6 August 2019

  • The Future Provision of Medical Reports in Road Traffic Accident related Personal Injury Claims Published: 20 May 2019 On the 18 April The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) published its consultation entitled ‘Future Provision of Medical Reports in Road Traffic [...]

    Published on 20 May 2019