“Proof” Government Plans to Privatise NHS
Exclusive: GPs say they have firm evidence now that the government is planning to privatise the National Health Service as
Exclusive: GPs say they have firm evidence now that the government is planning to privatise the National Health Service as
New evidence suggests that an insurance giant that could make huge financial gains from government reform of incapacity benefit played
Continue readingNew evidence of corporate giant’s influence on welfare reform
A Channel 4 News investigation reveals that under the reforms of the NHS, GPs could end up making decisions based
Continue readingLeaked Document Shows How Doctors Can Profit From Welfare Reform
The extraordinary announcement that GPs may no longer be able to sign their patients off work for periods longer than
Continue readingWelfare reform and the US insurance giant Unum
Planned changes to the UK benefits system have left disabled people “suicidal”, campaigners in Scotland have said. They told MSPs
Continue readingDisabled ‘suicidal’ over Welfare Reform Bill
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Continue readingResponse to our open letter and Atos’s reply to the BMJ:
The sickness absence review will only lead to incapacitated people limply tramping the streets looking for nonexistent jobs … Continue reading
C4 investigation reveals government’s work capability assessment programme is clogged with costly, unresolved cases … Continue reading
Currently, it works like this. If you are ill and unable to work, you sign yourself off work for the
Continue readingMargaret McCartney – General practitioners and sickness absence
A NIGHTMARE neighbour launched a hate campaign against a wheelchair user – branding him a benefit scrounger because he had
Continue readingCruel neighbour waged three-month hate campaign
There are concerns that reductions in benefits and public services will significantly and disproportionately affect disabled people. What progress has
Continue readingA Report By The Joseph Rowntree Foundation – Rethinking Disability Policy
Sick people could be signed off long-term work by an independent panel rather than their family doctor, a report is
Continue readingGPs could lose responsibility for sick notes
People should be signed off for long-term sickness by an independent assessment service not GPs, a government-backed review says. The
More stories of medical tyranny, with Atos mentioned 🙁 Reports are being written all over the UK and probably worldwide on
Continue readingVast sums of money to write reports on clients
Over the past year the Black Triangle Campaign has developed in both scope and influence from an informal Facebook group
Continue readingDebate Re: Proposed Formal Structures for the Black Triangle Campaign?
As reported in today’s Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/nov/16/young-jobseekers-work-pay-unemployment), Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) have begun a legal action challenging the Coalition Government’s ‘Mandatory
Continue readingLegal Challenge to Government’s ‘Forced Labour’ Scheme
The tragic deaths of a vulnerable couple living “hand-to-mouth” has highlighted the potentially catastrophic consequences of drastic cuts to benefits and services on those least able to cope … Continue reading
More Meddling from Unum in Government policy? UnumProvident is the UKs leading provider of group income protection insurance, with over
BRUSSELS – Already at the margins of society by virtue of casual discrimination, disabled people are often among the worst hit
Continue readingDisabled people live in ‘terror’ of the future
The Countess of Mar tabled a Written Question asking the Government why, in view of the fact that Chronic Fatigue