Atos In The News Again

[DrFilth]

another fit for work dies

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/dying-merseyside-man-told-benefits-6924979

[jno]

one of the great successes of privatisation of the health service, Atos; think of the money they've saved the government and all of us.

[piggynose]

sad story

[DrFilth]

you are right jno it cost me more on phone calls and a taxi or tram and bus to see them than the £5-91 a week they were giving me

[Gromit]

The scandal of Atos is they were given their contract to save money not to genuinely assess claimants worthiness. So people who were unfit to work had their dole taken away to meet spuriously designed targets. Atos will deliberately target someone like this because they are an east target. Real scrougers know the system and will challenge their assessments.

[albaqwerty]

Genuine claimants will also appeal Gromit, wasn't it 3 out of 5 appeals which were successful against these box-checkers?
They are not medical professionals at ATOS.

[jno]

this guy couldn't appeal because he was too ill. Like doctors, Atos bury their mistakes.

[Gromit]

Alba

My point was they concentrate on the easy targets to get the most savings for the least work. Sussed claimants got their assessments changed. People without the ability or drive yo fight them didn't.

[albaqwerty]

aah, point taken Gromit, thanks.
The typed word can come across as being taken the wrong way. My apologies for mistaking your point.
(I'm on edge as I'm awaiting an appointment with them)

[DrFilth]

alba you stand a good chance of getting some points as they have kicked that many off they have now started to give a few some points ( seems that way from what i have heard )
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkzHxXg0rfQ

[tonyav]

Interesting accent there, Doc.

[emmie]

if anyone has been through the system then you would know how it works, or doesn't, i have and so have a number of people on this site.
i have been a critic of this for a long while, its a tortuous, long process,
18 months in my case, if you think that isn't stressful enough, you look at some of the people waiting their turn to be seen for a health check and you wonder at the stupidity of not so much ATOS but those who didn't put any checks on them in place. Tick box exercise as others can attest.

[youngmafbog]

Yep, yet another poorly written contract by left wing civil servants.

Start employing people from the real world and not the pages of the Guardian and you may start to get somewhere.

[emmie]

i saw a nurse the second time around, she hardly looked at me, but at the computer, i had submitted a thorough and very detailed report on their massive forms, she said that it was a lot of information, there was i thinking you had to be honest, so much for that, she disregarded most of what was on it, ticked the boxes - i had to wait many months for the results, and that was the start of a tortuous process.

[Gromit]

// Yep, yet another poorly written contract by left wing civil servants. //

Desperate ymb, very desperate.

[humbersloop]

//poorly written contract by left wing civil servants// or playing favours for your mates?

http://dwpexamination.org/forum/general-discussion/the-tory-party-has-received-1-3-million-in-donations-from-donors-linked-to-atos/

[emmie]

who employed them in the first place.

[emmie]

fingers in many pies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atos

[emmie]

in case you didn't know who put them in place
wiki


Last summer it was announced that the company, which was originally appointed by the last Labour government in 2008, had been instructed to implement a "quality improvement plan" following an "unacceptable" deterioration in the quality of its written reports. At the same time the DWP said it would be seeking to bring in additional providers in order to increase capacity and cut waiting times