Ask Atos Healthcare disability assessment questions

Hi ATOS

According to one of your HCP, i would be cured from MS in 6 months, that was 2 years ago and i am still awaiting this cure?

I have it here in Black and White.


I am so desperate to be cured, so what is the big secret?

sicknotethefirst wrote: »

Question for the rep...

Does a HCP' specifically a NURSE have to identify themselves with their name and registration number in the same way that a Doctor must tell you his or her GMC number.

What they are supposed to do and what they do in realty are too diffident things.

Its like getting blood out of a stone getting an ATOS doctor to give you there GMC number. Its problem the same with the nurses too.

Atos Rep. I would aslo like to know if Nurses should be telling you there NMC red number,

And can you also tell me why Doctors are tell the the people they see that they are not allowed to give there number out.

I admit that I don't know if its all of your Doctors but It has been reported that there are some that have not been giving this number out when asked.

Could you also tell us that any Doctor that gets reported to you as not giving there GMC number out , What sort of action to you take.

From: Dr Margaret McCartney Comments (13)

First Posted by: Margaret McCartney 20 November 2012

There can hardly be a GP in the land who has not noticed the mess that we are being invited to mop up over the Government’s work capability assessments.

The programme to reassess whether people on benefits are fit for work – as contracted out to the French technology company Atos at a cost of £100m a year1 – is creating distress in patients and additional workload for practices as many people are told to ask their GP for a letter to try and support their claim.



We are asked to fill in cursory forms that give space only for confirmation of the diagnosis; barely any space to describe the impact of illness on a patient. A doctor recently wrote in the BMJ about how difficult she found the process; how much worse is it for patients who are unused to form filling and bureaucracy?2

The fall-out for ordinary people is immense. Many people who have worked all their lives and who feel guilt and shame at being ‘burdens’ on the state find the process of claiming benefits humiliating and degrading.

There are multiple harms created for citizens that are going unmeasured – the ongoing stress of the uncertainty of the process has profound impacts on many people’s health.

The costs of this are not being borne by the company running the scheme; the NHS is bearing the brunt of them.

Earlier this year, the LMCs conference called for the process to be scrapped, saying it should be replaced with ‘a rigorous and safe system that does not cause avoidable harm to some of the weakest and most vulnerable in society’.

It is not a fair system (and there is copious evidence of its unfairness) and its failings will be borne by the most vulnerable. The stress caused by its inadequacies will be pushed on to the NHS.

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