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Atos Testing on Military Personnel

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Dear Ministry of Defence,
How many servicemen and women have been denied benefits or face reduced benefits after being examined by ATOS HCP's?

Please give the figure from APRIL 2012 to APRIL 2013.

Of this figure, how many have appealed and are awaiting a tribunal?

How many have been successful within this time frame?

How many personnel have been declared disabled since the invasion of Afghanistan?

Yours faithfully,

MEREDITH ONG

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ATOS fail by default so they get paid.

ATOS do NOT recognize the Military Covenant.

86 ATOS doctors are/have been investigated to date by the General Medical Council(GMC) regarding allegations of misconduct NOT in the interests of the well being their patients and bringing the Hippocratic Oath into disrepute, thus rendering ATOS NOT fit for purpose.

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ATOS to lose monopoly after 'flawed and unacceptable' disability benefit assessments.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/hom...

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Atos to lose monopoly after ‘flawed and unacceptable’ disability benefit assessments

More than 40 per cent of the reports carried out on disability benefit claimants by the back-to-work assessor Atos are flawed and unacceptable, according to an audit commissioned by the Government.

Following months of complaints about allegedly unfair and slapdash decisions made by Atos, the Department for Work and Pensions audited around 400 of the company’s written reports into disability claimants, grading them A to C. Of these, 41 per cent came back with a C, meaning they were unacceptable and did not meet the required standard.

The lowest grade does not necessarily mean the decision was wrong, but that a serious error or omission occurred, such as no evidence to justify the recommendations, or inconsistencies in the evidence provided.

The findings mean the company will be stripped of its monopoly on deciding whether people with disabilities are fit to work. The DWP said the poor quality of the company’s written reports were “contractually unacceptable” and announced on Monday it would be inviting other companies to bid for fresh regional contracts by summer 2014 to help reduce waiting times. Liam Byrne, the shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, said: “This is a direct consequence of three years of appalling contract management by Iain Duncan Smith.”

full story
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/hom...

SPVA-Secretariat Group (MULTIUSER),

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Dear Ms Ong,

 

Please see attached the response to your freedom of information request
you e-mailed to the Ministry of Defence on 24 July.

 

Yours Sincerely

 

Norman McGuirk | SECRETARIAT |

 

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