#Atos Healthcare: failing UK’s most vulnerable
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“The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members,” Gandhi said. And the UK is not measuring well. The government is failing society’s disabled, ill, and most vulnerable. The Work Capacity Assessment (WCA), which is being carried out by the French firm Atos Healthcare on behalf of the British government, is proving to be an ineffective, costly process which is pushing many to the verge of despair. This article was initially published by OpenDemocracy (...)
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►http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/jennifer-kennedy/department-of-work-and-pensions-and-atos-healthcare-still-failing-uk'
►http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/atos-contract-does-not-offer-value-for-money-says-national-audit-offi
▻http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00wq21j
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