Comments on: Labour demand big improvements to Work Capability Assessments

By: Debbie St Jacques

Debbie St Jacques — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:56:00 +0000

In reply to Leon Wolfeson. Here here

By: Debbie St Jacques

Debbie St Jacques — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:48:00 +0000

I was hoping Labour we’re going to scrap the whole thing and let our qualified doctors who know us and our medical histories do the assessments. I am very disappointed to read that Labour are basically doing the same as the diabolical Atos. Who to vote for now??

By: Alan Foulds

Alan Foulds — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 23:20:00 +0000

Abolish it altogether Kate any process like this causes too much stress on vulnerable adults who suffer from any kind of disability and if a gp keeps signing a patient sick nnote

By: john mcgeown

john mcgeown — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 20:56:00 +0000

If a person is diagnosed as incapable of work through disability and/or chronic illness by the relevant qualified medical practitioner then why do politicians think they then need to go through the humiliation of the WCA at all !! It is a disgrace that people in this position are made to feel like skivers and scroungers by the very people they look on as skivers and scroungers i.e. The house of lords, expenses scandals, 2nd homes etc. Abolish this utterly degrading façade and help these people to cope in life rather than hounding them to suicide or early death through starvation, losing their homes or not being able to heat or clothe themselves. Go and chase the bankers, corporate tax evaders, the profiteering landlords, the paedophiles at the BBC, the slave traders using workfare as an excuse to not pay employees and correct the social injustices and inequalities in our so called civilised society

By: Poverty Pimp

Poverty Pimp — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 20:09:00 +0000

If the WCA tickbox “medical assesment” works so well,why not role it out right across the NHS Kate ? Who needs doctors anyway now that Prof Harrington & Co have “improved” the thing so much.

But seriously lets move on to the real reason why Kate and the Labour Party won’t ditch WCA.The answer to this surely has to be either you don’t trust millions of your fellow citizens desire to stack shelves in Poundland,or Maximus & New Labour have done a backroom deal.Which is it ?

By: Caroline Molloy

Caroline Molloy — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 17:01:00 +0000

There are some half decent suggestions here – but why won’t Labour just admit (like the Green Party) that whatever scheme of assessing and supporting disabled people is brought in, it should be publicly, not privately provided?

Here’s a bit from this week’s Green Party statement:

“The Work Capability Assessment has proved a very expensive disaster in both financial and human terms. It must be abolished and replaced with a system that truly reflects the needs and aspirations of sick and disabled people. Those who cannot work must receive the support they need.”

“It is unnecessary to pay hundreds of millions of pounds to private companies like Atos and Maximus, when sick and disabled people, and their own NHS doctors, can tell us what they need. Public services should be run for the common good, not private profit.”

http://greenparty.org.uk/news/2014/11/03/green-party-condemns-three-pronged-government-attack-on-sick-and-disabled

By: eviltories

eviltories — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:41:00 +0000

from what I’ve seen this Maximus is going to be worse than Atos, if that is even possible. just like Unum, they’ve helped strip away insurance claims and needed benefits from millions of Amercans. Now it’s time for us Brits to suffer the same fate.

By: Leon Wolfeson

Leon Wolfeson — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:29:00 +0000

In reply to Chriss’y Christmas Red.

Actually a lot of medic’s no longer swear an oath.
They are, however, held to the professional standards the GMC puts forward.

By: Chriss'y Christmas Red

Chriss'y Christmas Red — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 01:57:00 +0000

In reply to Leon Wolfeson. couldn'y agree more, all who sign up for this disgusting treatment of patient's should be prosecuted , they sign an oath to alway's put the patient 1st.

By: Chriss'y Christmas Red

Chriss'y Christmas Red — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 01:55:00 +0000

In reply to TimRegency. fully agree x