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State pension service could be privatised under DWP plans
Department for Work and Pensions considers privatisation as part of search for savings as budget shrinks by a third

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/09/state-pension-service-privatisation-dwp-plans


Fuck they may be going for the big one(or kite flying)Duncan Smith again, its not pensions themselves, but the administration of them. But, this could backfire as pensioners and soon to be ones, won't like such radical change during their pension lifetimes.

Pensions is perhaps the only area where the DWP works well.
 
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Media is reporting that Govt is seting up a new 70m private sector organisation to get long term sick back to work, anyone who has been on sick leave for more that four months can apply, apparently its non compulsory, yeah right, so with U/C that means nearly all the working/non working population will be under Sauron's gaze, I mean the DWP.
How does that work? If the state sets it up, how is it then not a public sector thing?

Why is this any different than the rest of these companies and schemes; all of which have failed to do anything? I'm still waiting for the Salvation Army Employment Pluys to write me back after I spoke to them a month ago. The whole (non) experience of the Work Programme has been laughable.

This is just good money after bad.
 
joke from facebook
So Atos found me fit for work and I went looking for a job. I saw in the Daily Express an advert for W.C.A Assessor in all areas.
I thought I might try for that job with Atos,
so I wandered into their Main office today and says to the receptionist,
"I would like to put my name forward for the job of WCA Assessor please."
The receptionist replied, "Certainly sir. Please fill in this form.''
So I was filling the form OK until I came to the question - ''Are you circumcised?''
I wandered back and asked the receptionist "Is this question... necessary” ?
She replied “ if your circumcised you are not eligible”
My second question was , “what difference could that possibly make?”
She replied “to be eligible you have to be a complete prick”
 
Reported on national broadcast media, BBC News Channel, Sky News, reckon it would have been main story without the floods, benefits and work newsletter reported on it, maybe someone has a link here.
 
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A friend who is on JSA had to to her Grandad's funeral and was told she couldn't be allowed to miss her signing on day unless "she took it as one of her one week holiday allocation":mad:
 
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Media is reporting that Govt is seting up a new 70m private sector organisation to get long term sick back to work, anyone who has been on sick leave for more that four months can apply, apparently its non compulsory, yeah right, so with U/C that means nearly all the working/non working population will be under Sauron's gaze, I mean the DWP.

It's the DWPs' ultimate plan called Health Work Wellbeing.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/health-work-and-wellbeing-caring-for-our-future


The ultimate goal is removal of GP and NHS services to be replaced by an ingratiated DWP & preferred private partner set up.

The above is just WRAG for employed folks - the ultimate goal is to remove GPs power and have you see the DWPs preferred Occupational Health service after seeing your GP to see if you can work that day.

ESA is now WRAG 0-12 months Work Program, WRAG 12-18 Intensive Heath Care Support (this is replacing NHS services which will be non existant after 2015) - Ingeus are running the pilots https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pilot-schemes-to-help-people-on-sickness-benefits-back-to-work.

'Health and Social Care Information Centre' (HSCIC) or care.data database all our records are going on is being used to monitor GP performance targets for commissioning. Or removing services from the public to private provision as it sometimes goes by.

If you find some of the vision documents from 2007/2008 you'll see most of it is in place now and with the DWPs' mastery of statistics it's already a roaring success :thumbs:

Hi by the way :D
 
It's the DWPs' ultimate plan called Health Work Wellbeing.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/health-work-and-wellbeing-caring-for-our-future


The ultimate goal is removal of GP and NHS services to be replaced by an ingratiated DWP & preferred private partner set up.

The above is just WRAG for employed folks - the ultimate goal is to remove GPs power and have you see the DWPs preferred Occupational Health service after seeing your GP to see if you can work that day.

ESA is now WRAG 0-12 months Work Program, WRAG 12-18 Intensive Heath Care Support (this is replacing NHS services which will be non existant after 2015) - Ingeus are running the pilots https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pilot-schemes-to-help-people-on-sickness-benefits-back-to-work.

'Health and Social Care Information Centre' (HSCIC) or care.data database all our records are going on is being used to monitor GP performance targets for commissioning. Or removing services from the public to private provision as it sometimes goes by.

If you find some of the vision documents from 2007/2008 you'll see most of it is in place now and with the DWPs' mastery of statistics it's already a roaring success :thumbs:

Hi by the way :D


This is fucking dystopian, , and of course NL were in power in 2008 when much of it was conceived, not certain it will all come to fruition despite evidence to the contrary.
 
It's the DWPs' ultimate plan called Health Work Wellbeing.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/health-work-and-wellbeing-caring-for-our-future


The ultimate goal is removal of GP and NHS services to be replaced by an ingratiated DWP & preferred private partner set up.

The above is just WRAG for employed folks - the ultimate goal is to remove GPs power and have you see the DWPs preferred Occupational Health service after seeing your GP to see if you can work that day.

ESA is now WRAG 0-12 months Work Program, WRAG 12-18 Intensive Heath Care Support (this is replacing NHS services which will be non existant after 2015) - Ingeus are running the pilots https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pilot-schemes-to-help-people-on-sickness-benefits-back-to-work.

'Health and Social Care Information Centre' (HSCIC) or care.data database all our records are going on is being used to monitor GP performance targets for commissioning. Or removing services from the public to private provision as it sometimes goes by.

If you find some of the vision documents from 2007/2008 you'll see most of it is in place now and with the DWPs' mastery of statistics it's already a roaring success :thumbs:

Hi by the way :D
What NHS services are you referring to here? I'm not aware of anything specific that your GP can offer to ESA claimants. Or do you mean the coalition's plans to take the ability to sign people off away.
 
do you mean the coalition's plans to take the ability to sign people off away.
The GP issue has been a bug bear to the DWP for a long while. Have a read of the 29 page fitnote guidance the DWP produced for GPs under the Wellbeing banner and it's pretty clear that the DWP are having hissy fits and want that power removed. The debate on GP's salaries has already started in the media which is the clearest indication that they're next in the Governments firing line.
 
The GP issue has been a bug bear to the DWP for a long while. Have a read of the 29 page fitnote guidance the DWP produced for GPs under the Wellbeing banner and it's pretty clear that the DWP are having hissy fits and want that power removed. The debate on GP's salaries has already started in the media which is the clearest indication that they're next in the Governments firing line.
Indeed, but is that what you were referring to. Or do you mean something else?
 
Sorry your bit about GPs and ESA services confused me a little.

You need to look into how the DWP are using the Health Work Wellbeing program to drive reform in the way the NHS provides services. The 80's saw this plan start, it accelerated during the Labour years and has become a defunding back door privatisation bonanza since 2010. 2015 is the year the tree fruits, well that was the expected date but I'm of treelovers' view here it just isn't happing as planned. With commissioning around the corner Ingeus, Crapita, G4S and their ilk will be looking for fat payments to take over these missing services by tendering. Before the Work Program was defunded and went all "black box" it was envisioned that there would be more and varied treatments available via it than would be left in the NHS. ESA/PIP with all these pilots the DWP are running are just risk free ways for Crapita and the like to test the water and set up services. It's all going a bit wrong in the private provision take up stakes but that hasn't stopped the vitriolic gusto in defunding and removing existing service provision.

GP surgeries although private enterprises working on NHS contracts are not the private enterprises the DWP wants. It has to negotiate and can not set it's own terms of reference like it can do with G4S etc. Once GP's are bench marked via commissioning tables I'm expecting the knife to go in and an ending of the GP service we know and love.

To summarise it's already a car crash for service users about to become a full on motorway pile up as the fog of the H W & Wellbeing program comes together.

Mental Health provision in the NHS is one area as IAPT were put in by the DWP. The secondary services CMHT and IPTT that were expensive are all but gone thanks to the yearly funding cuts from 2010 ending 2015. As an example in 2010 the IPTT had a whole Wing to itself in ST Thomas' Hospital by Waterloo - it's now confined to the basement of that wing. Had a meeting there with it's head (who's a crackin lass) recently as I had to raise a complaint with the Chief Exec of the trust about the NHS refusing to treat me! But that's another story for another time.

The nice private psychiatrist I saw before Christmas said I was a wee bit paranoid I'm 50/50 between intelligence and the Father Ted to Father Dougal dreams v's reality drawing
 
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