Official medical certificates / expert opinions
The public medical service carries out medical and public medical examinations, assessments and statements in accordance with statutory regulations on the orders of authorities and private individuals. The doctor at the Office for Health and Prevention is an independent expert: the assessments are carried out appropriately and with a selection of additional examinations that are related to the purpose of the assessment. Official medical certificates are drawn up impartially, objectively and neutrally.
Required documents
- Examination order
- identity card
- Depending on the reason for the examination, available medical documents, treatment reports and findings
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The following examinations are carried out:
- Examinations for the civil service
- Civil service on revocation, probation and for life,
- Determination or exclusion of fitness for duty (by order),
- Accident at work procedures,
- Eligibility for medical expenses such as
- inpatient/outpatient rehabilitation and mother/father/child rehabilitation
- medical treatments or diagnostic procedures as well as prescriptions for remedies and medical aids,
- Reduction in teaching hours for teachers
- Examinations for the social welfare office
- necessity of costly nutrition,
- Ability to move, heating,
- Necessity of aids,
- Information on the ability to work in the event of confirmed incapacity to work,
- Examinations in accordance with the Asylum Seekers' Benefits Act (necessity of medical measures and aids)
- Examinations for the job centre
- Necessity of costly nutrition,
- Necessity of special needs if the evidence of the attending physician is not sufficient in exceptional cases.
- Examinations on behalf of courts
- Ability to negotiate,
- capacity to be detained,
- ability to be questioned,
- earning capacity (on behalf of family courts),
- Alcohol and drug abstinence check-ups as part of court proceedings
- Examinations for obtaining a lorry driver's licence
- Eye test
- Determination of physical fitness
- Assessment in accordance with immigration law
- Assessment of migrants for repatriation / deportation (fitness to travel)
- Assessment of migrants for repatriation / deportation (fitness to travel)
- Other examinations by the official medical service
- Expertise for adoption procedures,
- Expertise to determine examination eligibility and/or recommendation of individual examination conditions at the written request of the examination office, the examination board or, if there is a corresponding legal basis, at the request of the examinee him/herself,
- Assessment to determine the necessity of a change of degree programme or an extension of the study period for health reasons,
- Assessment within the framework of the extension of the time to complete a thesis,
- Expertise on special expenses and extraordinary burdens in the context of income tax law,
- Expert opinion on the receipt of child benefit in the event of prolonged illness of the adult child,
- Fitness to marry for foreigners,
- Notarisation of certificates for carrying narcotics in the context of medical treatment, if these were issued by a doctor practising in Chemnitz,
- Taking blood or saliva tests for parentage reports,
- alcohol and drug abstinence tests in preparation for the reinstatement of a driving licence and
- in individual cases for the confirmation of fitness for work in the case of addicts, which may be associated with a health risk to themselves or third parties.
Fees
Official medical examinations, expert opinions and certificates are generally subject to a fee (depending on the expert opinion order / cost bearer).
The amount of the fee is specified in the Saxon List of Costs.