Wednesday, 24 July 2013

Get Better... Or Else?










  1. already used by you guessed it ...ATOS in OHS ...they may well trip up the odd professional malingerer , claimer , somebody " playing on it " , skiver etc , depends if you tolerate necessary evils or go down the Holier than Thou route .......problem is that too many people get caught in the crossfire and find it very offensive & insulting ......keeping the Union busy on behalf of it's members ...........................

    .......with the DWP , it'll be the Neo Con Ron Murray way .....ideology without evidence way ...this is all your fault .......we don't really believe you , you are being negative , full of self pity , not trying hard enough and we'll trip you up , any but which way ...Great !! more Tax Payer funded appeals against the Poverty Pimp outfits

    ......if fraud is a concern ... if it has to be a we'll have every last one of you all in the office scenario - do it properly under PACE ...not in such a amateurish manner with the mandatory quackery ....also the DWP appear to be trying to teach people a very perverse moral lesson .

    ......Labour tried this in 2008 ...for some " strange reason " they dropped it

  2. College of OT's and Serco were bizarrely represented by one person at a Government meeting.

    Listed as Ms XXX (whatever)
    Company: Serco/COT

    Its reported in Hansard, but I never followed up how or why.

    Anyone know? Was it a typo?

    1. I can just about see someone from College of OTs also working for SERCO, but surely conflict of interest to claim to represent both at once! Unfortunately I'm not surprised, there's been so much conflict of interest in ESA/WCA/just about everything else that the surprise would be if it didn't exist!

  3. That was the first question that popped into my mind: where this amount of specialist and highly trained medical staff were going to magically appear from. Surely all this government expenditure would be better spent on recruitment and training of nhs nurses and doctors, of whom there is a shortage. Its a senseless exercise. If you're sick, you cant just "get better". We are not talking about struggling into work with a cold here!! Some people can and some people just can't. I functioned my whole life with "episodes" and its hard enough to get seen on the nhs unless you hurt yourself of someone else let alone recruiting further staff for assessment centres. Big slow clap for another unworkable tory idea. Sure to create more disability hate though.

    1. McVey is very keen to push 'they get better', to try and convince everyone to think in short term sicknesss terms, but just doesn't reflect reality of disability. I'm 25 years into my disability, with only slow deterioration to show for it. Medical community gave up on idea of 'curing' me sometime in the 90s, but DWP seem to think they know better!

  4. God help us all!!! my husband has a Degenerative spine if they insist on the procedure of physical therapy, this will cause him extreme pain, as with a 'back problem' before it was diagnosed properly he was sent to a physiotherapist, if he was now sent to one the things they try to do would cripple him.

  5. My own personal experience has shown this expectation that disabled people will get better to be even more widespread. The doctor from the pension authority looking at my case suggested exercise therapy ... one of my main problems is that trying too hard plunges me back into the lowest point of my physical cycle and it takes days if not weeks to recover. If I may suggest you have a look at my own blog post from yesterday ... If they hadn't already stopped my money I would have been a sure thing for this new initiative.