- The controversial IT giant Atos Healthcare has broken a series of firm pledges that helped it win a £184 million disability assessment contract, Disability News Service can reveal.
- One of the UK’s two major disabled people’s representative organisations will lose its last paid member of staff next month, after it accepted defeat in a lengthy struggle to secure sustainable funding.
- The prospect of Labour calling for the hated “fitness for work” test to be replaced by a more “humane” way of assessing entitlement to benefits has moved a step closer, with its appointment of a new disability poverty taskforce.
- A senior doctor working for Atos Healthcare told colleagues he was “sickened” that disabled benefit claimants can now demand to have their “fitness for work” assessments recorded, according to a leaked email seen by Disability News Service.
- The government has performed a notable u-turn, after finally deciding – after nearly three years of discussions and consultations – that it will not abolish the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC) after all.
- New government figures show that the number of disabled people in “relative” poverty fell by 100,000 in the coalition’s second year, although only because the real value of benefits fell by less than real wages.
- Thalidomide survivors are seeking public support for their bid to force the company that manufactured the drug to finally accept responsibility – after more than 50 years – and pay them compensation.
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
John Pring's Disability News Roundup - Shockers!
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NHS 'cover-up' unacceptable - Hunt and the same goes for those that have died and continue to die through the welfare reform bill in which he conveniently forgot to add but i can ensure him is a ticking time bomb
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Thalidomide survivors can have every ounce of my support in their compensation claims. My second cousin Lee was affected by thalidomide. He has certain disabilities, like half-legs and half arms. When we were children we all played together and wow! Was Lee a great laugh. He would let us ride in his mobility chair, which we thought was as much fun as a go-kart and he used to use his arm, which ended at the elbow, as a light-saber and fight us with it, lol. He was also very fast across the floor in a race, using his backside to bounce along, great fun. His main problem was wearing his false-legs, as they rubbed on his knees and made it painful for him to walk. I would love it if Lee, his Mum and people who have thalidomide, get compensation they deserve so much.
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ReplyDeleteATOS healthcare is rejecting requests for home assessments even if a claimant’s GP supports one.
Asked “why Atos Healthcare can refuse a home visit for work capability assessments, even when a GP supports an application,” the Benefits Minister Nelson McCausland said Atos’ own health expert can disregard a GP’s opinion and demand claimants show up at local test centres.
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Atos have been proved negligent and incompetent and that the government still spend tax payers' money hiring these murderers is nothing short of an atrocity... "Atos" "atrocity" hmmm. This whole assessment system is pointless given there are no jobs for these people anyway.
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