Are Scottish PIP Assessors Being Paid By the NHS? According To One Nurse She Is!

A Scottish NHS Registered Nurse working in the South Lanarkshire area claimed several times during a PIP (Personal Independence Payment) assessment that she is being paid by the NHS and NOT the private company she was working for, namely ATOS.

The NHS Registered nurse, who can not be named at this time due to an ongoing investigation into her conduct of a client, maintained that although she was carrying out assessments on behalf of ATOS she strongly denied that they paid her and clearly stated several times she was paid by the NHS and her job was doing assessments every day.

Are the NHS  paying NHS staff to carry out assessment against the sick and disabled?

Does this not go against their oath to “do no harm” when it is a well-established fact that the assessments carried out by ‘health professionals’ on behalf of the DWP and the government through private companies such as ATOS, MAXIMUS, and CAPITA are to solely reduce or remove benefits from the sick and disabled and not about healthcare?

ATOS, MAXIMUS, and CAPITA are paid by the DWP who in turn are paid by the government via robbing the taxpayer.

WHY IS THE NHS PAYING THEIR STAFF TO CARRY OUT ASSESSMENT ON THE SICK AND DISABLED ON BEHALF OF ATOS?

How can any NHS medical professionals working on a daily basis looking after the sick and take pride in being called ‘Angels’ then go on to work for the DWP, the government, and private companies whose sole intent is to remove benefits from the sick and disabled?

What happened to ‘do no harm’ when the sick and disabled are found ‘fit for work’ and die a few days or a few weeks later from their illness or disability?

What happened to ‘do no harm’ to those that have been stripped of all benefit even though they may have cancer, blind, in a coma, missing limbs, or suffer terrible chronic painful conditions?

What happened to ‘do no harm’ when they decided to work against the sick and disabled?  

Over 120,000 people have died or taken their own life after being found ‘fit for work’ due to the input from an NHS ‘medical professional’ and the decision made to reduce someone’s benefit or remove it altogether is decided by a non-medical DWP decision-maker who never put their name to any documentation.

Assessors working for ATOS, MAXIMUS, and CAPITA receive £100 per assessment (could be more now) and can do 3 or 4 assessments in one day, then toddle back off to their ‘real job’, while most claimants are fighting for that £100 to live on every week.

Just as doctors take a Hippocratic Oath, nurses take a pledge to do their best for their patients. Often called the Florence Nightengale Pledge, the nursing oath is often administered at graduation ceremonies. Adapted from the Hippocratic Oath, the pledge follows the mantra of “do no harm.” It also swears loyalty in aiding the physician and freedom from the influence of personal matters. The words have been updated through the years, but the sentiment remains the same.

The Original Pledge

Nursing instructor Lystra Gretter, R.N., wrote the original pledge in 1893. Recited during the graduation ceremony at Harper Hospital in Detroit, it read:

“I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly: To pass my life in purity and to practice my profession faithfully. I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous and will not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug. I will do all in my power to maintain and elevate the standard of my profession and will hold in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping and all family affairs coming to my knowledge in the practice of my calling. With loyalty will I endeavor to aid the physician in his work and devote myself to the welfare of those committed to my care.”

The oath represents a sacred bind between caregiver and patient. The oath and the pledge are reminders to doctors and nurses of their responsibility to their patients. (LINK) 

How can any NHS medical professionals work in hospitals, GP surgeries, etc. pledge their responsibility to their patients and then go on to work in the private sector where their responsibility is then to the DWP, ATOS, MAXIMUS, CAPITAL, and the GOVERNMENT that works AGAINST the sick and disabled?  

If indeed the NHS is paying for assessment, then doesn’t this pose a bigger problem that the medical industry is partaking in the systematic targeting against the sick and disabled on behalf of the DWP and government while claiming to care for the sick and disabled as per their ‘pledge’ and then have the audacity to reach out to the general public to stop privatisation while they continue to outsource to the higher bidder?

Is the First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon aware that the NHS is paying staff to assess patients with the intent in removing benefits from the sick and disabled and leaving them without support, wheelchairs, mobility cars, and any other aides they require to function on a daily basis?

And if so WHY ISN’T SHE DOING EVERYTHING TO INTERVENE AND PREVENT THE HUMILIATION AND THE DEGRADING TREATMENT FROM NHS ‘MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS’ AND PRIVATE COMPANIES PATIENTS HAVE TO ENDURE ON A DAILY BASIS? 

 

Please do leave a comment and your thoughts or share similar experiences you endured while trying to claim benefits or problems with an assessor for PIP or ESA.