Dear Mr
McCartney
I understand that you are
the MP representing ex-serviceman Mr Smith, as featured in this disturbing press
article:
Like many others, I have
been concerned by this report in the Atos Victims Group News, following exposure
in This Is Lincolnshire, regarding the plight of ex-serviceman 'Mr
Smith' who lives with a potentially fatal condition, and I am speaking as
a retired cardiac care specialist and a disabled female
veteran.
Please send my best wishes
to Mr Smith and advise him that this disabled veteran is fighting for people
like him.
There remains considerable
confusion within the general public - and the DWP too - regarding the Work
Capability Assessment (WCA), as conducted by Atos Healthcare, with people still
presuming that they 'failed' the Atos test when, in reality, it is the
totally unqualified DWP 'Decision Maker' that makes the
decision regarding benefit entitlement who, by their own admission, are
totally incapable of deciphering medical opinion from
Consultants or anyone else. Hence the tendancy, by their own admission, to
'rubber stamp' the Atos findings etc. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-
The significant debate in
Westminster Hall will better inform you: http://www.parliamentlive.tv/
The WCA is not just
seriously flawed but is a threat to our most vulnerable people, is
totally unaccountable to the General Medical Council and
it is based on an unacceptable concept. A simple 'snap-shot' into a day in
the life of a claimant is totally inadequate as any form of so called 'medical
assessment' using a computer tick box instead of taking a full & detailed
medical history. Past medical evidence is ignored until
Appeal.
The WCA is an occupational
health assessment yet the one group of healthcare workers that Atos never
recruit are Occupational Therapists.....
The WCA is a dangerous
assessment using the highly discredited Bio-Psychosocial (BPS) model of
disability model, as promoted by the private health insurance industry and Unum
Insurance, acknowledged by the New York Attorney General as the 2nd
worst in the US, were government 'advisers' when setting up the
WCA. (See attached research.)
Please be further advised
that the BPS model of assessment is identified as being totally unfit
for purpose.
Please
see:
http://lindanee.wordpress.com/
http://lindanee.wordpress.com/
I have researched the links
between Atos Healthcare, Unum Insurance and the DWP for three years, and reports
are now attached as welcomed by 9 Professors in 7 different universities, as
well as a multitude of national frontline charities, welfare agencies and a
variety of specialists.
Professor Sir Mansel
Aylward, a recognised BPS 'expert' recently confirmed that the BPS model of
disability was "unsatisfactory" and that it "... no longer addresses the
real needs of disabled people..." yet this significant news has yet to be
widely reported, ?? why.... because the WCA uses the BPS moel to reduce
the welfare budget :http://www.
The constant failure of
the DWP to accept the crisis now faced by the most vulnerable in this
country, dismissed by claiming that anyone who isn't happy with the Atos
assessment, or the WCA decision, can simply make an appeal is so
callous.
The DWP's own figures
demonstrate that 1100 people, passed fit for work, had died before their appeal
date which can now take as long as 12 months to be heard and appeals using an
advocate are running at 70% success and not the often reported
40%.
Other MPs such as Nick
Debois tries to limit this nightmare by demonstrating how many assessments are
going through the system without it seems comprehending the many thousands who
are unable to consider dealing with an appeal, that may now take as long as 12
months to achieve, and there are others who do without their benfits rather than
subject themselves to this gvt funded medical tyranny.
Clearly, the DWP totally
UNQUALIFIED 'Decision Makers' administration staff, and
especially the medically unqualified DWP Ministers, all fail to comprehend
the extreme levels of stress these dangerously absurd decisions place on
our sick and disabled people, who often have the most profound of health
conditions, and prolonged and increased stress is a killer.
My research evidence is
attached FYI in the hope that your colleagues at the DWP may finally accept the
American style medical tyranny they have unleashed in this country.
Claiming that Labour introduced the WCA is now falling on deaf ears due to
the significant changes under this government that are increasing the death
rates dramatically.
I hope this information is
helpful especially when helping your constituent.
Sincerely
Mo
Stewart
Mo Stewart
Disability researcher
Disabled veteran
(WRAF)
Retired healthcare
professional
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 | ATOS HEALTHCARE OR DISABILITY DENIAL FACTORIES.pdf 69K View Download |
| WELFARE REFORM - REDRESS FOR THE DISABLED Exec Summary - final.pdf 53K View Download |
| FAILURE of ESA confirmed.pdf 49K View Download |
| BBC NEWS transcript - UNUM.pdf 23K View Download |
| THE TRUTH BEHIND WELFARE REFORMS - research summary - Jan 2012.pdf 23K View Download |
| THE VICTIMS OF LIB DEM BETRAYAL - LIB DEM VOICE - June 2012_7_.pdf 18K View Download |
| RESEARCH SUMMARY - UPDATED - DEC 2012.pdf 57K View Download |
| John Pring - links to Unum articles.pdf 8K View Download |
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