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Scots spared Atos assessment
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It's bit rich for them to try and take all the credit.0
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So, the DWP pays -- we pay -- ATOS, then it pays the NHS to do some of the work we paid it for, on the cheap
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/oct/10/atos-outsource-medical-assessments
(This is for PIP, ATOS will still do ESA)0 -
PIP or ESA or UC
It doesn't matter who does them. A monkey could do them. The LiMA software will always reach the same outcome, that is the way it was designed. It does however matter which Barabbas [NHS] takes the 30 pieces of silver and hands the victim over to Caiaphas [the DWP decision Maker] for Pontius Pilate [the Government] to crucify !
This is the conDEMS and the NHS is of course safe in their hands, another nail~in~the~cross of both money grabbers in the NHS temple and their suedo Hippocratical values.Disclaimer : Everything I write on this forum is my opinion. I try to be an even-handed poster and accept that you at times may not agree with these opinions or how I choose to express them, this is not my problem. The Disabled : If years cannot be added to their lives, at least life can be added to their years - Alf Morris - ℜ0 -
The software is a small part of it.
The largest is the assessment criteria that will not change whoever performs it.
In what sane system does a benefit given because you can't work not take into the fact that you are unemployable due to health issues, for example.0
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