"Medical Reports On People Claiming Some (UK) Benefits Are Unreliable Or Inaccurate"
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Here's a quote from a shocking and very disheartening report about how medical reports on people claiming some (UK) benefits are unreliable or inaccurate:
To access the Geoff Adam-Spinks audio report, "Not Feeling the Benefits' visit:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/programmes/fivelivereport.shtml
"Almost 80,000 sick and disabled people a year are being wrongly denied benefits, according to a BBC investigation for Radio Five Live.
It has emerged that medical reports on people claiming some benefits are unreliable or inaccurate.
As a result, thousands claiming Incapacity Benefit or Disability Living Allowance have had to appeal.
(...) The investigation found that some handwritten medical reports were altered so that the meaning was completely changed, while in other cases a computer-based medical questionnaire produced misleading or nonsensical information."
-- Geoff Adams-Spink, BBC News website age & disability correspondent, Errors block benefits to disabled: Cited from ME Association post [here...] --
To access the Geoff Adam-Spinks audio report, "Not Feeling the Benefits' visit:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/programmes/fivelivereport.shtml
