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speedfreek1000

Any comments of this please ATOS rep?

http://welfarenewsservice.com/atos-in-2k-disability-discrimination-settlement/#.UWg2tzBwb3s

Atos In £2k Disability Discrimination Settlement over WCA

Atos Healthcare have paid out £2,000 + costs (in the process of being finalised) in an out-of-court settlement of a disability discrimination claim arising from an Employment & Support Allowance Work Capability Assessment (WCA) in August 2011. As far as I have been able to find out it is one of the first Equality Act discrimination claims from a benefit claimant that Atos have faced.

screamer

To ATOS Healthcare rep, this isn't a trick question, could you tell me how an unconscious person is able to recognise a hazard and avoid it?

sicknotethefirst

Last Activity: Yesterday 10:00 AM

Must be cherry picking again??????

fin7

Atos rep, since when has anyone from atos been above a consultant? I'm curious to know.

Fin

bradzki

fin7 wrote: »

Atos rep, since when has anyone from atos been above a consultant? I'm curious to know.

Fin

They all must be, as the two I have seen both ignored my hospital consultants letters I provided as they thought they were more qualified and new better, they have both since been proved wrong.

halight

Atos Apologises To Long-Term Sick Wrongly Assessed As Fit For Work

This article titled “Atos apologises to long-term sick wrongly assessed as fit for work” was written by Randeep Ramesh, social affairs editor, for guardian.co.uk on Wednesday 17th April 2013 14.08 UTC

The executive in charge of running medical assessments for benefits claims at Atos Healthcare has offered an apology to those long-term sick it has incorrectly assessed as being “fit for work”.

In her first public interview, Lisa Coleman, the manager who oversees the firm’s contract with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), was asked by BBC Radio 4′s You and Yours programme if she would like to apologise. She replied: “If we get something wrong then I’m very happy to say sorry.”

Although work capability tests were introduced by the Labour government in 2008, the coalition has rapidly expanded their use. However, Atos – which last year processed almost 20,000 incapacity benefit claimants a week – has faced criticism after it emerged that a third of decisions were overturned on appeal.

There have also been repeated claims that people with terminal cancer had been denied benefits as a result of Atos assessments and that the company sets out to strip people of benefits by making the tests arduous and degrading.

Radio 4 questioned Coleman about a number of cases in which people had claimed that their complaints had been ignored, that assessments had not been carried out properly or that no account was made of the needs of patients – some of whom could not stand or needed nursing support – to take the tests.


Please go to link to read more.


http://welfarenewsservice.com/atos-apologises-to-long-term-sick-wrongly-assessed-as-fit-for-work/#.UW7EsKIWKS0

schrodie

And still they deny a targets driven regime!

Sorry my a*se!

mat39

Hi I have been unable to work for approx. a year now due to severe depression and am under my doctor and waiting for a second go at mental health services, I have been told I cannot claim dba due to my wifes earnings, is this true.
Thanks for any info.

halight

mat39 wrote: »

Hi I have been unable to work for approx. a year now due to severe depression and am under my doctor and waiting for a second go at mental health services, I have been told I cannot claim dba due to my wifes earnings, is this true.
Thanks for any info.

DLA Has nothing to do with Income.
You can claim it no matter how much your wife earns. It is based on your care needs.

Atos_Healthcare_representative

fin7 wrote: »

Atos rep, since when has anyone from atos been above a consultant? I'm curious to know.

Fin

Hi fin7

Atos Healthcare HCPs are carrying out a different role to that of a consultant. Where consultants are treating or diagnosing patients our HCPs are carrying out a functional assessment against criteria set out by the government. This is different and doesn’t mean that one is overruling the other.