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Health Transformation Programme
19 February 2024 - DWP publishes guidance for clinicians on the severe disability group and the simplified assessment processes for PIP and LCWRA
https://www.rightsnet.org.uk/welfare-rights/news/item/dwp-publishes-guidance-for-clinicians-on-the-severe-disability-group-and-the-simplified-assessment-processes-for-pip-and-lcwra
May not technically be HTP, just White Paper
12 March 2024 ‘the Health Transformation Programme will transform the entire PIP service to simplify and shorten the application process for all PIP claimants’ https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2024-03-04.16698.h
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[ Edited: 18 Apr 2024 at 03:05 pm by Carri ]19 March 2024 - Health Transformation Programme management information to January 2024
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/health-transformation-programme-management-information-to-january-2024
25 March 2024: DWP’s own research into PIP claimants’ ‘channel preferences’ with some comments on the prospects of online-only PIP https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/digital-skills-channel-preference-and-access-needs-personal-independence-payment-customers
26 March 2024: DWP confirms it is testing the sharing of health assessment reports with PIP claimants by default before a decision is made
https://www.rightsnet.org.uk/welfare-rights/news/item/dwp-confirms-it-is-testing-the-sharing-of-health-assessment-reports-with-pip-claimants-by-default-before-a-decision-is-made
26 March 2024 - update on ‘specialist assessors’ trial
‘As the term “specialist” has a very specific meaning in a medical context, the decision has been made to rename the initiative to “Condition Focused Assessors” to avoid misalignment with clinical definitions. The ambition and intent of the initiative remains the same. In September 2023, we began a small-scale test matching certain PIP claimants’ primary health condition to an existing healthcare professional (HCP) with relevant clinical experience. This test ran until January 2024, at which point it was expanded to cover claimants with multiple conditions. (...) Initial exploratory research will be published later this year.’
https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-03-19/19455
19 April 2024
PIP (and fit note) overhaul proposals part of PM’s speech: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/prime-ministers-speech-on-welfare-19-april-2024
If they actually happen, they obviously overshadow all the nonsense in this thread so far
It’s a ‘political if’. ‘Political if’ = won’t happen, couldn’t happen, not intended to happen but generates a headline.