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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 15)
"Rules" on patients recording their treatment
Response by King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to Rick Sykes on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Sykes,
Further to your request for an internal review made on 28th June 2017,
please find attached a copy of the Trust’s response in lin...
Case Ref: FS50489761
Date: 27/11/2013
Public Authority: Department for Work and Pensions
Summary: The complainant requested legal advice on the ri...
...and the ICO has made his decision.
Department for Work and Pensions
Case Ref: FS50515864
Date: 19/02/2014
Summary: The complainant has request...
The audio-recording by claimants of DLA\PIP assessments
Partially successful.
The DWP & ATOS policy on no recording and ATOS policy of no advocate allowed without permission is unlawful and amounts to a number of criminal offence...
Audio-recording WCAs: RPF –27 to RPF –33
Successful.
Use whatever you like to make a record of your audible presentation. Since when did atos acquire the authority to decide how you make a record.
Atos...
WCAs conducted: 01 11 2009 to 31 10 2010.
Successful.
Use whatever you like to make a record of your audible presentation. Since when did atos acquire the authority to decide how you make a record.
Atos...
Refusals to record WCAs: 9 or 99,999
Successful.
Use whatever you like to make a record of your audible presentation. Since when did atos acquire the authority to decide how you make a record.
Atos...
Use whatever you like to make a record of your audible presentation. Since when did atos acquire the authority to decide how you make a record.
Atos...
DWP\Atos Guidance document: use of personal recording equipment by claimants to record WCAs
Partially successful.
Use whatever you like to make a record of your audible presentation.
Atos HCP can misrepresent a client in all wca reports.
The only way to put a s...
" For Question 2, I maintain there are currently no documents that specify exact "required standards" and "audio recording criteria" where claimants wi...
The DWP's continuing and illegal obstruction of recording
Request to Department for Work and Pensions by Rick Sykes. Annotated by GEOFFREY REYNOLDS (Account suspended) on .
Refused.
It is realistic to assume that the DWP and ATOS are petrified of the thought of any claimant, who has been wrongly identified as fit for work and subse...
Claimants wanting recordings. DWP's distortion of fact.
Partially successful.
Not exactly the most sincere apology I have seen and it contains no indication at all of concern of doing anything differently in the future. The coup...
Unlawful obstruction of the recording of illness\disability assessments (1)
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to Rick Sykes on .
Successful.
Please see attached reply to your Freedom of Information request
Many Thanks
Business Management Team | Department for Work and Pensions | Contracted...
Unlawful obstruction of the recording of illness\disability assessments (2)
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to Rick Sykes on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Sykes
Please see your FOI response attached
Kind regards
Health & Disability Assessments (Operations)/Department for Work and Pensions/Room...
WCAs conducted: 01 11 2011 to 31 10 2012
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to Rick Sykes on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Sykes
Please see your FOI response attached
Kind regards
Health & Disability Assessments (Operations)/Department for Work and Pensions/Room...
This person's 22 annotations
"Rules" on patients recording their treatment
Successful.
This concerns:
https://www.kch.nhs.uk/news/public/news/view/23135
The principal point, of many that could be made in this connection, is that the K...
Meanwhile,for anyone interested in the detail, here is a 'home-made' link to the ICO decision in question:-
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5j83PP1...
I am sorry to say I learned last week that my reference to the ICO in this matter didn't get over that office's interpretation of the facts and the 'le...
This one's with the ICO.
Someone must have put half a fire-cracker somewhere appropriate because the DWP has actually responded a week before the statutory time limit.
Still...
" For Question 2, I maintain there are currently no documents that specify exact "required standards" and "audio recording criteria" where claimants wi...
DWP\Atos Guidance document: use of personal recording equipment by claimants to record WCAs
Partially successful.
Exactly, JS.
The wording of the 'process document' here (agreed between Atos and the DWP on 04 01 13) says:-
"The copies must be made following the...
DWP\Atos Guidance document: use of personal recording equipment by claimants to record WCAs
Partially successful.
nd now see John Slater's supportive further request, here:-
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/wca_recording_dwp_guidance_in_me#incoming-379906...
Audio-recording WCAs: RPF –27 to RPF –33
Successful.
I 'cast my net' in the hope of catching some more, slimy, 'audio-recording' material.
No joy there - but it is indeed interesting to examine what has...
Claimants wanting recordings. DWP's distortion of fact.
Partially successful.
Agreed D.A.
Now for something a little different.
Since my typing is frequently chaotic, and I am perfectly capable of producing the occasional gra...
Claimants wanting recordings. DWP's distortion of fact.
Partially successful.
Entirely agreed, JS.
So, on the Atos wepage in question:
"Less than half of those people offered a recording agreed to it…" (14 12 12),
has (as a...
" In respect of your specific proposal of “I have a Dell laptop (and microphone) and standard off-the-shelf software which enables recording to hard di...
DWP\Atos Guidance document: use of personal recording equipment by claimants to record WCAs
Partially successful.
Thank you for that, John.
Gerald Jones' query obviously includes, but covers more than, policy questions concerning audio-recording of WCAs by claima...
DWP\Atos Guidance document: use of personal recording equipment by claimants to record WCAs
Partially successful.
Indeed, John. This is a document we will certainly get out of them in the end - or, if it 'vanishes', then there are the criminal provisions in the FoI...
Deferring WCA for 4 weeks
Partially successful.
Excellent 'pounce' on the inaccurate consent form text, JS. Every time the DWP tries to patch up its 'leaky dam' it seems to sprout two fresh leaks els...
Deferring WCA for 4 weeks
Partially successful.
Aha! I think the acknowledgment that the 'decision maker's' obligation to consider ALL available evidence extends to consdidering an audo-recording (if...
You are dead right there, John - and of course I had largely drafted my referral to the ICO before I put this request in (!)
Nevertheless, courtesy n...
DWP\Atos Guidance document: use of personal recording equipment by claimants to record WCAs
Partially successful.
The bit in bold (or one of them) reads:-
"WE WILL NOT ACCEPT LAPTOPS"
Recording WCA
Refused.
John. That is an absolutely ourageous assertion by the DWP, and I concur: the DWP's position on this illegal -and getting worse, the more it is probed....
The audio-recording by claimants of DLA\PIP assessments
Partially successful.
JS. I am glad to see that Gerald Jones here asked the dead on 'have you a policy' question you suggest on 30 01 13. One to follow.
It is extraordinar...
Tum-te-tum.
I hate to quarrel with any aspect of this admirable and potent site's free service, but I have just checked the time-for-reply date ascri...
John. Thank you for your, interest, annotation and above all that revealing RPF-27 enquiry. It is a great pleasure to note how far round the net that h...