Massive rise in WCA failures? 

I dont know if its just me but since May ive noticed a huge spike in people who have been on ESA for years
who are failing their medicals. Only a handful (and i mean handful) seem to be getting their 15 points

Some of the decisions ive seen are quite frankly shocking (gravely ill client of mine failed WCA 3 weeks ago, and died last week : yes, another one )

Has anyone else noticed this?

Is there any way of seeing if there is a percentage increase?

Our local welfare rights service is swamped, and we appear to be doing nothing but MR and SSCS1 appeal forms

Thoughts?

They have started re-assessments again, but would that necessarily lead to a rise in negative decisions? It may be that some (non-existent) target/benchmark/expectation (whatever DWP choose to call it) has been set.

The graphs on the first page of the latest WCA stats show that the number of assessments is steadily rising since the beginning of 2015 - but there has been a recent increase in repeat assessments and decrease in initial assessments (see graph on page 5). MRs also steadily going up too.