Report to MPs recommends medical tests and ‘back to work’ interviews for thousands undergoing treatment … Continue reading
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DWP proposes to force chemotherapy patients to undergo stressful benefit checks
Macmillan Cancer Support has strongly criticised a Department of Work and Pensions decision to propose changes to the benefits system
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Miller and Atos face angry heckling at disability poverty conference
A government minister and executives from the company that carries out “fitness for work” tests on disabled people have faced
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Government hires extra judges to tackle welfare appeal backlog
Ministers have been forced to hire more than 80 new judges in a multi-million pound effort to address appeals by
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Peter Ross: A spotlight on the work of the Citizens Advice Bureau
GLASGOW’S great extremes of rich and poor are, at this time of year, thrown into even sharper relief, just as
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Channel 4 news – ESA appeal’s are endless – Employment and Support Allowance
The number of appeals for ESA has quadrupled in 2 years, from 68,000 in 2009 to 240,000 by the end
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New evidence of corporate giant’s influence on welfare reform
New evidence suggests that an insurance giant that could make huge financial gains from government reform of incapacity benefit played
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Leaked Document Shows How Doctors Can Profit From Welfare Reform
A Channel 4 News investigation reveals that under the reforms of the NHS, GPs could end up making decisions based
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Welfare reform and the US insurance giant Unum
The extraordinary announcement that GPs may no longer be able to sign their patients off work for periods longer than
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Disabled ‘suicidal’ over Welfare Reform Bill
Planned changes to the UK benefits system have left disabled people “suicidal”, campaigners in Scotland have said. They told MSPs
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Response to our open letter and Atos’s reply to the BMJ:
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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
Margaret McCartney – General practitioners and sickness absence
Currently, it works like this. If you are ill and unable to work, you sign yourself off work for the
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GPs could lose responsibility for sick notes
Sick people could be signed off long-term work by an independent panel rather than their family doctor, a report is
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GPs should ‘not sign off long-term sick’
People should be signed off for long-term sickness by an independent assessment service not GPs, a government-backed review says. The
Vast sums of money to write reports on clients
More stories of medical tyranny, with Atos mentioned 🙁 Reports are being written all over the UK and probably worldwide on
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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
Parliamentary Question, WHO classification and Atos medical assessments, 14 November 2011
The Countess of Mar tabled a Written Question asking the Government why, in view of the fact that Chronic Fatigue