The 'allow list' in this guidance was formerly known as 'whitelist'.
The BASRiS form gives confirmation of an individual’s terminal illness for the purpose of accessing disability assistance benefits in Scotland.
If you have access to the Scottish Wide Area Network (SWAN) on an NHS network, you can complete a BASRiS web form. If you do not have access to SWAN you should use an editable PDF BASRiS form or a paper BASRiS form.
A new version of the BASRiS form was released on 15 December 2022. Please ensure you use the most up to date form.
The new form states that the date to be provided is the date the clinical judgement of terminal Illness was made. You should complete the BASRiS as soon as you make the clinical judgement, but if you complete it on a later date, you must record the exact date on which you made the clinical judgement.
Paper BASRiS forms completed by hand must be posted. Send a completed paper BASRiS form to:
BASRiS
PO Box 27165
GLASGOW
G4 7BR
Old BASRiS forms that do not explicitly ask for the Date of Clinical Judgement of Terminal Illness should not be used.
Registered medical practitioners or registered nurses with access to SWAN on the NHS network.
1) Using an NHS device, click the link https://basris.socialsecurity.gov.scot/
2) On the home page, you will be asked which form you wish to complete.
Select the type of form you wish to complete:
3) Fill out the applicant’s details to the best of your knowledge.
4) Tell us what you know about the applicant’s conditions and whether or not they are aware of their diagnosis and prognosis.
5) Tell us your clinical judgement about the applicant’s condition. Record the date of clinical judgement of terminal illness.
6) Complete the ‘Declaration of legal consent’.
7) Fill out your details as a registered medical practitioner/registered nurse.
8) Check over all your answers on the final page of the form then press ‘Continue’.
By pressing ‘Continue’ at this stage, your form will be automatically submitted.
9) Download and save a copy of the submitted form.
10) You now have the option to fill out a BASRiS Payment form.
If you get an error on the webform that you need to tell us about, you can email us at:
DigitalBASRiSGeneralEnquiries@socialsecurity.gov.scot
Title your email: BASRiS Error
Where possible also include the following:
Once your email has been received, we will contact you within 14 days to respond to your query.
If you are unable to use the webform, you can submit an editable PDF BASRiS form or a paper BASRiS while we investigate your issue.
You can download an editable pdf of the BASRiS form.
You must email completed digital editable PDF BASRiS forms and BASRiS Payment forms to the addresses:
Don’t worry if you send forms to the wrong email address. We will re-route these internally.
We can only accept pdf BASRiS forms and BASRiS Payment forms that have been completed digitally and sent by email. Do not complete these by hand, or post these.
If you wish to complete a BASRiS form or BASRiS Payment form by hand, and send it by post, please use the paper forms.
You can only send us a completed editable PDF BASRiS form from an approved email address/domain name that is on our allow list below.
Approved domain names on our allow list are as follows:
Stakeholders who are not on our allow list will receive an automatic reply telling them their email has been rejected. Check your junk email to make sure your email has not been rejected.
Our BASRiS allow list is a list of all professionals and professional organisations who can send a BASRiS form and claim a fee for doing so.
If you are not on the allow list then first confirm your organisation is on The Scottish Charity Register (OSCR). Only an organisation on the OSCR can be accepted onto our allow list.
If your organisation is on the OSCR then you can apply to join our allow list by emailing:
DigitalBASRiSGeneralEnquiries@socialsecurity.gov.scot
In your email, we need you to:
You’ll receive an acknowledgement that your email has been received. We’ll then contact you within 14 days to either confirm you’ve been added to the whitelist or advise you why your application has been rejected.
If you're a medical practitioner you can ask for paper BASRiS forms by filling out the form below. If you're an applicant and think you need a BASRiS, you should ask a medical practitioner for one.