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12-10-2016, 07:50

No imo the NHS should handle medical assessments as they have far more familiarity with the relevant conditions and their effect on a persons day to day life. I cannot understand why we have a health service that all politicians talk up till it comes to benefit medical assessments. As well as saving us upto 3 billion a year it would also cut down the time many doctors have to spend at tribunals testifying on behalf of their patients which is increasing every year.

At a stroke it would remove all controversy on the subject and help the public have more faith in disability benefits, as anyone with a longterm illness is all too aware that consultants don't keep you on their list unless they are personally convinced a problem exists. Only reason i can see for why this isn't how it's done is because NHS doctors are very unlikely to misrepresent their diagnosis to cut the number of claimants something that ATOS did and were even caught admitting on video by both dispatches and panarama.

12-10-2016, 07:50	#39
RizzyKing Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Worrying news for ESA claimants converting from DLA to PIP. No imo the NHS should handle medical assessments as they have far more familiarity with the relevant conditions and their effect on a persons day to day life. I cannot understand why we have a health service that all politicians talk up till it comes to benefit medical assessments. As well as saving us upto 3 billion a year it would also cut down the time many doctors have to spend at tribunals testifying on behalf of their patients which is increasing every year. At a stroke it would remove all controversy on the subject and help the public have more faith in disability benefits, as anyone with a longterm illness is all too aware that consultants don't keep you on their list unless they are personally convinced a problem exists. Only reason i can see for why this isn't how it's done is because NHS doctors are very unlikely to misrepresent their diagnosis to cut the number of claimants something that ATOS did and were even caught admitting on video by both dispatches and panarama.