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I have just checked the "Doctor" that it ment to be coming for my home visit on a website which shows a register of specialist and GP's i was just wondering why the "Doctor" that is coming to mine is neither a GP or a specialist as i thought they needed to be a specialist in different areas to perform the medical fairly???

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It has become obvious by reading posts from people on other websites that ATOS are sending out new ESA50's without the DWP instigating it, as the DWP have no knowledge of it, when inquiries are made.

QUESTION to ATOS Rep :

Have ATOS ever sent out an ESA50 to reassess an ESA recipient, without a referral from the DWP ?

Yes so they can make even more profit from the sick and vulnerable.

Nurse makes heartfelt apology after Atos forced her to trick disabled people out of benefits

24 Sep 2012 00:01
SCOTS nurse Joyce Drummond reveals how thousands of genuinely ill people were set up for a fall before they had even been assessed by benefits firm Atos.

From the story,

Joyce Drummond’s medical training meant she knew claimants were unfit to work.

But she was told to mark people as fit if they could write or show up for an interview properly dressed. Eventually, Joyce was carpeted by bosses for being “too nice” to claimants.

Joyce said candidates were marked down if they:

*looked well-presented, with neat hair and make-up.

*turned up with a toddler.

*could sign the application form.

Mum-of-one Joyce, from Mosspark, Glasgow, said Atos decision makers paid no attention to her professional clinical opinion and were only interested in cutting down the number of claimants.

She reveals all the questions she was told to ask were loaded.

“Once I realised how manipulative the assessment system was, I got out immediately. The stress of it all made me ill and I have not worked since.”

But it wasn’t long before I realised no one cared about my professional clinical opinion. It broke my heart and I went home in tears every night.

Joyce said many claimants were set up for a fall even before they came into her office in Cadogan Street, Glasgow.

She said: “If they made it in by themselves, that was seen as a sign they could function

They also had to fill in a form. If they did it, it showed they could think, write and were capable of managing.

“We also had to assess their appearance. If a woman was wearing make-up and was nicely dressed, she was deemed as functioning and capable.

“If someone had a pet, they were able to function and if they smiled while talking about a pet, I had to mark down that they smiled spontaneously and were therefore not depressed.

“It was so unfair. There could be a very depressed or ill person sitting in front of me but on paper, thanks to the leading questions I had to ask, they could be judged fit to work.”

“I never found out how the decisions went but when I was doing the interview, I knew what the outcome would be

[QUOTE“Atos went by the philosophy that if you had a finger and could push a button, then you could work. Ridiculous.”][/QUOTE]

[QUOTELast week, a Panorama documentary revealed that each week between January and August last year, 32 people died who the Government had declared could be helped back into work][/QUOTE]

Appeals against decisions are costing the Government £50million a year.

Atos have a £206million contract from the Department for Work and Pensions.

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http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/nurse-makes-heartfelt-apology-after-1340838

Please go to link to read the full story

ATOS REP,

Is this the way to treat some of the most vulnerable people In the country ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=49sMJQVuqPA