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Originally Posted by Angua
Boils down to the Tories continuing with a system brought in by Labour, whose inventor said was not fit for purpose.
Tick boxes can never fairly assess anyone with a work affecting disability.
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PIP was brought in by the Tory/Lib Dem coalition.
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Originally Posted by Hugh
We don’t have enough doctors to do their day jobs at the moment - anyway, it was retired GPs who used to do the assessments, not specialist medics (my wife used to work with them).
Of the claims that have had assessments, 82% of new claims and 88% of reassessment claims were recorded as having one of the following most common disabling conditions: psychiatric disorders (which includes mixed anxiety and depressive disorders), musculoskeletal disease (general or regional), neurological disease, respiratory disease.
Not sure if it’s feasible to give assessors several years training in such wide and diverse areas?
The biggest challenge the assessors face is they are not given time between assessments to fully complete the paperwork (or electronic version thereof), which leads to confusion and mixup on evidence given and those being assessed.
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It was carried out by a mix of current and retired doctors.
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An interesting blog by the LSE about the affect on staff that the current system is having:
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...re-plus-staff/
Some more info about the deaths caused by the DWP:
https://www.disabilitynewsservice.co...he-prosecution
The DWP were found to be in breach of data protection rules on the ESA50, so made amendments. On the first day of the new Parliament, they removed this amendment! I'm sure that this will be challenged and reported to the Information Commissioner:
https://mrfrankzola.wordpress.com/20...ights-removed/