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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
How about we kill two birds with one stone we cease using these thoroughly discredited and completely ineffectual private company's to do the assessments and hand them over to the NHS who then charge the DWP a fee for each assessment. NHS gets more cash and the DWP gets a true report on a persons illness and effects on daily life so has to spend less time and resources cleaning up the mess the private company's constantly make. Only reason i can see the DWP wouldn't want this is because they couldn't issue quotas to NHS doctors as they do to the current company's though yes i know officially the DWP doesn't have quotas to be failed but unofficially everyone knows they do.
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Far too sensible.
Also how can ministers offload government money to private individuals without outsourcing?
The absolute biggest weakness of the assessment system is how the DWP and the NHS dont work together. Even if consultant names are supplied they are rarely contacted by the DWP.