Post by nickd on Aug 16, 2011 15:53:07 GMT 1
Contrary to what the vast number of ATOS
medical assessments would have you believe
There are some people who are genuinely disabled
Time and time again disabled people are being denied
their Employment and Support Alllowance because the
assessment process fails to recognise that the disabled
have a limitation in the work place.
The process is flawed and means people are being
refused help to get them back into work.
Give them a hand in fighting against a medical assessment process which is seriously under question, found to be flawed by a select committee;- and which now sees 12 ATOS healthcare professionals under investigation by the General Medical Council.
Anyone who provides welfare and benefits advice or undertakes casework in this area has only a few days left to submit their views
Read more...
In November of last year, Professor Harrington's Independent Review of the Work Capability Assessment made a number of recommendations on how the process could be improved. The Government accepted these recommendations and started implementing them.
The Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC) wants to gauge what the impact of these recommendations has been by collecting the views of welfare advisers and caseworkers. This survey will be used to feed into the second year of Professor Harrington's review of the Work Capability Assessment and will help to ensure that any further improvements that are needed to the process are made.
Please take part in a short survey which should only take around 10 minutes to complete, it could help make a difference to someone else.
Survey...
www.surveymonkey.com/s/wca_year_one_recs
Read more on welfare reforms: mylegal.org.uk/index.cgi?action=display&board=frontline&thread=405&page=3#ixzz1VCgvCjsW
* thanks to Johhnnybegood for posting this on Mylegal.