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The disturbing truth about disability assessments

Two recent television programmes made public what doctors and patients already know: fitness to work assessments being conducted in the UK by the private firm Atos are unfit for purpose and damaging. Why are doctors involved in this farce, asks Margaret McCartney

Full text here - bmj.com
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  • CKhalvashi
    CKhalvashi Posts: 12,134 Forumite
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    Le73Uq86Uv wrote: »

    Read the other night!

    We've known this for some time; the problem has been doing something about it.

    CK
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  • p999j
    p999j Posts: 185 Forumite
    Do you think the BMA may appreciate being supported by further cases like our own?
    On their webpage: http://bma.org.uk/about-the-bma/what-we-do/lobbying it encourages viable constructive actions and directs you how to take those active steps forward. I will be doing it.
    National BMA offices also:

    Scotland
    14 Queen Street, Edinburgh EH2 1LL
    Tel: 0131 247 3000 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting numbers_button_skype_logo.pngFREE 0131 247 3000 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
    Fax: 0131 247 3001
    Email: [EMAIL="BMAScotland@bma.org.uk"]BMAScotland@bma.org.uk[/EMAIL]
    Wales
    5th Floor, 2 Caspian Point, Caspian Way, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff CF10 4DQ
    Tel: 029 2047 4646
    Fax: 029 2047 4600
    Email: [EMAIL="BMAWales@bma.org.uk"]BMAWales@bma.org.uk[/EMAIL]
    Northern Ireland
    16 Cromac Place, Cromac Wood, Ormeau Road, Belfast BT7 2JB
    Tel: 028 9026 9666
    Fax: 028 9026 9665
    Email: [EMAIL="BMANorthernIreland@bma.org.uk?subject=BMANorthernIreland@bma.org.uk"]BMANorthernIreland@bma.org.uk[/EMAIL]
    "To exercise power costs effort and demands courage." Oscar Wilde

    "There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste" Jean de La Bruyère

    "Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation." Henry Ward Beecher
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