Are ATOS Assessing “Customers” With Next To No Notes On A Regular Basis?
Spotted on Facebook. Sharing because they are asking a very important question.
Someone asked me to post this for them.
“I have Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of autism, and I’m suspected bi-polar, I’ve been on ESA for a while now and I’ve been assessed by ATOS before, the first assessment went off without a hitch and I passed it, I recently had another appointment for an assessment which was cancelled due to doctors ironically “calling in sick” (oh the hypocrisy, if it was me I would’ve been sanctioned and technically speaking I have more of a right to miss an appointment than them), they made another appointment for me which I went to only to find that I was being assessed by a NURSE (who after my mother started talking about my situation, decided she couldn’t deal with this case, that it needed to be passed to a doctor), rather than a doctor, apparently they’re behind in appointments and short of doctors at the moment. Also she has next to NO information on me and my situation in her folder on me, all’s there was, was that I have Asperger’s, no notes from my GP, no notes from my last assessment, no nothing, she didn’t know what to expect AT ALL, she looked absolutely bewildered when my Mum started telling her everything. The lady herself was lovely, the situation however was appalling.
Are ATOS assessing “customers” with next to no notes on a regular basis? Is this why people are being found to be “fit for work” and having their much needed money away from them. Because there’s no paper trail surrounding their condition? Because legally speaking without legal proof, regardless of what’s seen or told in the assessment room, ATOS are not accountable for those deaths?”
Same Difference 
no it doesn’t make much difference whether ones got medical reports most now they pushed aside by that highly trained assassin saying they aint there to read your life story jeff3
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At both of my assessments (I have ME) the assessor had no notes and no knowledge of ME. The second assessor even said I just had yuppie ‘flu!!
Few assessors have ANY medical training, hence them having no knowledge.
Why the hell our doctor’s diagnoses aren’t adequate proof of incapability I’ll never figure out!?!
I’m nearly ten months into a wait for tribunal, on appeal rate ESA, its a joke!
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Yes I suspect that is the case and not only that some are not even being assessed and failing or put into wrag without an assessment who really should have as many of those should be in support group
The whole system is a mess many in high places know it is a mess but do nothing to hold those to account except the campaigners who are not listened too
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During my seven medicals I have been Assaulted, spoken to like dirt and on each occasion appealed only to be upheld, sorry to say that the system applied by ATOS is simple a vehicle to raise money for the company. I suffer with severe COPD and have had to explain to more than one “Health Professional” what this is, when my GP dealt with these things he knew exactly why I cannot get a job, because of my condition employment insurance is impossible and trying to be self employed is exactly the same
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ATOS we must all be careful to make it clear that ATOS are agents this government. So it seems to me that it is evident they are a shameless profit maximizing corporate company (the latter point is a contractual obligation they have towards their shareholders) who have been allowed to place profit above decency, fairness and public duty by a ConDem government, which believes greed is good and society a meaningless idea.
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