These guidelines have been produced by a working party of the Association of Local Authority Medical Advisors to help doctors arrive at equitable decisions when assessing applications for ill health retirement. The general guidelines are intended to apply to all pension schemes and the specific ones to those such as The Local Government Pension Scheme where there is a requirement for the applicant to have permanent ill health.
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