Criticism of the Work Capability Assessment oversaw the study" and named the lead experts as a professor of psychiatry, a consultant psychiatrist in learning disability, a professor of rheumatology, and an expert in human resources. The review's conclusion was that "the WCA produced consistent results on the whole, and is an accurate indicator of work capability compared with expert opinion". But the following year the firm that had carried out millions of WCAs on behalf of the DWP since 2008 said it had come to the conclusion that "in its current form, the WCA is not working for claimants, for DWP or for Atos Healthcare". The
Criticism of the Work Capability Assessment investigation regarding those deaths by an independent body". In October 2018, the Scottish National Party used Prime Minister's Questions to ask Theresa May about the WCA and the suicide or self-harm of people going through it (an issue that is covered in detail on the Criticism of the Work Capability Assessment page). Polly MacKenzie is the director of the think-tank Demos. Previously, she helped draw up the Coalition Agreement in 2010 that foresaw the Incapacity Benefit reassessment programme going ahead and she was Nick Clegg's director of policy until 2015. In 2018, she was quoted by "The Observer" as saying