RizzyKing

I have friends and relatives working in the public sector including one working for the DWP and they are the most critical and cynical of the DWP hence them starting a new job in a couple of months. Good people can sometimes work for bad company's it's always been that way and no consultants these days care about facts they have very little emotional attachment to individual patients so they are far better placed to give accurate assessments of a persons illness and effects of that illness.

So you'd be happy to have an assessment from someone who until they took the company's assessment course might have been a cleaner and honestly believe they will have a better handle on a person's medical conditions then a consultant. Why they don't use the NHS is quite simple they can't fire the NHS they can't put the pressure on an NHS consultant to give them their preferred decision as they can with the private company's that have contracts from the DWP. Regardless of the people working within the system doesn't change the fact it's a lousy system that fails in every regard except one in that it temporarily reduces benefit claimant numbers.

We pay these private company's a lot of money to do assessments that they routinely get wrong that then costs more money when it goes to tribunal who overwhelmingly find the assessment system to be flawed and ineffective and have stated as much numerous times and nothing is done to change it. Oh and if your a good actor and know the system well as all die hard benefit fraudsters do this current assessment system is your best friend because it's easy to pull the wool over the eye's of the inexperienced and knowledge lacking assessor.

Money is being thrown down the drain with the current system with very little value being gotten for the sums paid and we have the NHS with funding issue's so cancel the private company's contracts and give the money to the NHS instead. They are better equipped and qualified to know a problem exists and if it affects a person to the point of not being able to work it's a perfect solution except for the fact the DWP would lose any control over the assessments which it clearly isn't willing to do. Ask yourself why the NHS that treats the ill in this country but plays no part in the assessment process to determine illness and extent of that illness is in anyway logical.