Ask Atos Healthcare disability assessment questions

JS477

Redman wrote: »

As this is a Q & A thread, I suppose I had better pose a question to the "ATOS Rep"

Do you have any comments on the cases of injustice and death, that were brought up in the "ATOS and The WCA Debate", held in The Main Chamber of The House of Commons this afternoon, Thursday 17/01/13 ?

The silence may be deafening!!

sicknotethefirst

vision2009 wrote: »

The SILENCE speaks volumes.
Come out, come out ATOS wherever you are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They won't be back now, probably tomorrow I should think once he has he/she has got over the Bol***king today in Parliament

Redman_2

js477 wrote: »

the silence may be deafening!! :d

brill !!!!!

Olive_Oyl

Muttleythefrog wrote: »

Numerous reports exist of HCPs calling themselves doctors when they turn out not to be. I repeat my question from over a year ago and more recently. How does one go about finding out who the HCP will be who is to conduct their face to face medical?

I'll remind you what happened to me in a little more detail so as to give you some explanation as to why I ask this question. I suffer from paranoia and also have to obsessively plan ahead. So I took the measure of making a FOI request to the DWP regarding who the HCP would be for my medical. The DWP responded with details - a male doctor x. However to my surprise my medical was actually conducted by a female nurse - this caused me great difficulty and actually at one point led to me considering attacking the nurse in the assessment room. As you may well imagine I do not like facing situations where I'm at risk of harming someone. Therefore it would be greatly helpful if there was some way of finding out who the HCP would be in advance of the medical - asking for a FOI seems insufficient as ATOS (from observation) seem to operate some conveyor belt type system on the day making allocation of HCP difficult to predict. Can you clarify how these things work and how I as a customer who may have another face to face medical looming in the next month or so how I go about getting this information.

And no.. I do not wat a PR reply... although even that would be an advance on previous. I need accurate information so that I can take steps to help both ATOS and myself. I presume you would not think that unreasonable and therefore my question entirely valid and clearly well within the scope laid out at the start of the thread. If you don't know the answer - you can say I don't know the answer. At least then I can stop asking the question and move on to another that hasn't been answered. Not a lot to ask is it?

A customer.

I hear an echo Muttley :think:

HB58

JS477 wrote: »

Anyway, it seems then this "Atos Rep" person may not be who they claim to be and are from a PR company!! That may expalin the very selective questions they have attempted to answer and the PR'esk style responses!!

Perhaps MSE can ask them for their credentials

That is interesting, what leads you to believe that?

JS477

HB58 wrote: »

That is interesting, what leads you to believe that?

The previous post. It would certainly explain the woeful quality of the selective responses.

ebsay

I'd like to to know why ATOS found a woman DYING from Breast Cancer FIT FOR WORK?



Quote From The Independent Newspaper: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/atos-told-incontinent-woman-to-wear-nappy-8456447.html

Cecilia Burns, 51, from Northern Ireland died last summer shortly after winning her campaign to get her benefits reinstated.

Ms Burns, who was being treated for breast cancer, had her benefits cut by £30 a week after an assessment by Atos.

She started a campaign to have the decision overturned but died shortly after the money was reinstated.

ebsay

I'd like to ask What Gives ATOS HCP's The Right, and Who Give's Them The Authority to tell an Incontinent Woman to Wear A Nappy?!



Listen Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbKSDR38cmw


Text From The Independent Newspaper: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/atos-told-incontinent-woman-to-wear-nappy-8456447.html

Labour’s Iain Wright, MP for Hartlepool, told MPs that one of his constituents, a woman who suffered from Crohn’s disease, had been told she could wear a nappy to work.

“What sort of country have we become, what sort of ethical values does the Government have, if that’s the degrading and crass way in which decent law abiding constituents of mine are being dealt with?” he said.

schrodie

I'd like to ask the "Atos Rep" in light of the yesterday's MPs debate on Atos which you can read here Here what they thought of the damning evidence against Atos!

nogginthenog

Redman wrote: »

Taking into account all comments, as the annual subs are £19.45, it works out at 37.4p/week.

I have never yet to pay £19+ pa, to join B&W.