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GPs call for Work Capability Assessment to be scrapped.
GPs at the annual Scottish GP conference (held on 22 March 2012) voted in favour of a motion calling for the end of the work capability assessment. The doctors, who represent GPs from across Scotland, agreed that the system should be replaced with a more vigorous and safe process which takes into account the needs of long term sick and disabled patients.
Dr Andrew McNutt, a GP in Bathgate, said: “There has been a dramatic increase in the numbers being assessed as fit to work and a massive number of appeals have been made against these decisions. These assessments can have a devastating effect on our patients’ mental and physical health.”
Pity the Scots can’t put in a bid to run Whitehall. Rather pay them £300m than Atos. We could move parliament to the Waverley Bar in Edinburgh too.
Heard Atos where sponsering the Commenwealth Games in Glasgow..
no wonder by the time they are finished Glasgow will be the new Lourdes…
Heard Atos where sponsering the Commenwealth Games in Glasgow..
no wonder by the time they are finished Glasgow will be the new Lourdes…
I hope you don’t mind but I just tweeted your joke, cos it made me laugh.
no problem.. 8-))