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- 1. Yorkshire & Humberside Atos
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- 2. UC
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- ... the beginning of March 2013, the assessments were carried out by a private sector company called Atos. However, Atos have now been replaced by another private sector company called Maximus, which carries ...
- 3. South West England Atos
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- 4. South East England - Atos
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- 5. Scotland - Atos
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- 6. PIP assessment centres
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- ... or first floor. Lift available. Anything else you think might be helpful. You can find your PIP assessment centre using the links below. At the moment we're just covering Atos, but we'll extend this ...
- 7. North West England - Atos
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- 8. North East England - Atos
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- 9. London - Atos
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- 10. Guides
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- ... Providers 103 page guide for Atos and Capita to using PIPAT assessment software. Benchbook 190 pages A4, dated August 2006 - the tribunals service refuse to release newer editions A very useful resource. ...
- 11. East England - Atos
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- 12. Atos wiped out as DWP reveal who will carry out your assessments from 2024
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- The final combined PIP and work capability (WCA) assessment service contract has been awarded to Serco, the DWP announced this week, meaning that Atos have failed to win a single region and will cease ...
- 13. Atos wiped out in PIP bidding war
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- Atos has either not bid for, or has failed to win, a single contract for the new combined PIP and work capability (WCA) assessment service, with just one of five regions left to be announced. Both Maximus ...
- 14. Atos employ just 3 doctors to carry out PIP assessments
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- Atos employ just three doctors out of a total of 2,000 health professionals who carry out PIP assessments, the company revealed in evidence from the three main assessment providers given to MPs last week. ...
- 15. 10 March 2021 Update: Claimant Sues Atos And Sends In Bailiffs, New PIP And ESA Video Assessments Law, Combined PIP and ESA Assessments Trial
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- ... MIDNIGHT FRIDAY: 47728 Dear Reader, In this newsletter, we applaud the claimant who successfully sued Atos for £2,500 for their inaccurate PIP assessment - and then sent the bailiffs in when they ...
- 16. Claimant successfully sues Atos and sends in the bailiffs when they don’t pay up
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- A claimant has successfully sued Atos for negligence and failure of duty of care and then sent in the bailiffs when they failed to pay up, the Disability News Service (DNS) has revealed. The claimant, ...
- 17. Atos still fails to meet targets for level of unacceptable PIP reports
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- Figures released by the DWP show that Atos yet again failed to meet its target for acceptable PIP assessment reports in 2019. Only 64% of reports were fully acceptable without any qualification. The ...
- 18. Complaints about ATOS on the rise
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- The percentage of claimants who complain about ATOS (now known as IAS) has risen over the last 12 months and almost doubled in the course of the last four years. In answer to a parliamentary question ...
- 19. Atos and Capita to be sacked in Scotland
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- Atos and Capita will lose their contracts for carrying out PIP and DLA assessments in Scotland when Social Security Scotland (SSS) takes over the administration of these benefits. Shirley-Anne Somerville, ...
- 20. Atos ‘would fully support’ the recording of PIP assessments
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- In written evidence to the work and pensions committee, Atos have said that they ‘would fully support’ the recording of personal independence payment (PIP) assessments. They also revealed that an average ...
- 21. 6 September 2017 Update: DWP Loses Fight To Stop Claimants Appealing But Tries To Cover Up Possible Differences Between Atos and Capita PIP Assessments
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- ... Information Commissioner that they must publish a report that shows how well Maximus, and Atos before them, carry out work capability assessments. The reason the DWP have given for the refusal? Publication ...
- 22. DWP fights to cover up differences between Atos and Capita PIP assessments
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- The DWP is refusing to release training materials which would potentially highlight difference between the way that Atos and Capita carry out PIP assessments, Benefits and Work can reveal. Back in ...
- 23. 21 June 2017 Update: Huge Fall In DLA To PIP Moves Plus Atos Reborn As IAS Plus IDS To Replace Jeremy Vine
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- ... built up and the DWP are doing their best to cover up the truth. We’d be very interested to hear from you about how long you waited for your face-to-face assessment. ATOS CHANGES ITS NAME Atos ...
- 24. Atos changes its name
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- Atos Healthcare announced last week that they have changed their name to Independent Assessment Services. Atos, along with Capita, carry out PIP assessments on behalf of the DWP. However, it was during ...
- 25. Labour promise to scrap PIP and ESA assessments and sack Atos, Capita and Maximus
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- Labour have made a wide range of promises to improve the lives of claimants in their manifesto published today. These include scrapping the current personal independence payments (PIP) and employment and ...
- 26. Atos and Capita make surprise extra millions from PIP
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- ... more than expected from their contracts. In total, Atos and Capita were set to be paid £512 million for their first five years’ work from 2013, which was to include assessing all working age disability ...
- 27. Government to review all Atos contracts
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- The Cabinet is to review Atos’ performance in every one of its government contracts worth more than £10 million, the Guardian has reported. This will include the personal independence payment (PIP) assessment ...
- 28. Atos, Capita and Maximus to be investigated by MPs
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- The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is to investigate next month whether the taxpayer is getting value for money from the benefits assessments carried out by Atos, Capita and Maximus. There will be a televised ...
- 29. Have you been to an Atos PIP assessment centre?
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- ... floor or first floor. Lift available. At the moment we are only collecting information about Atos centres, because they at least have the courtesy to publish a list of theirs. If we get sufficient ...
- 30. Atos and Capita accused of poaching paramedics to cut benefits instead of saving lives
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- An NHS whistleblower has claimed that the A&E crisis is being made worse because highly trained NHS paramedics across the country are being poached by Atos and Capita to do assessments for personal independence ...
- 31. DWP’s secret death reviews spare Atos
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- ... relatives. In addition, the DWP are refusing to follow an official recommendation that a medically qualified person should always review any Atos medical report following a benefits related death. Last ...
- 32. Maximus executive removes details of his Atos past
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- ... run by private sector “henchmen”. Professor Michael O’Donnell, the former medical director of Atos, now plays a senior role in the American company Maximus, which has won a £500m Government contract ...
- 33. Maximus to take over WCA from Atos
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- The BBC are reporting that American firm Maximus are to take over from Atos as the provider of the work capability assessment (WCA). Maximus has been described by John Pring of the Disability News Service ...
- 34. Atos WCA replacement deadline will be missed
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- ... that the new contractor delivering work capability assessments (WCAs) should already be in place and beginning to take over from Atos. A memo headed ‘Atos Healthcare will no longer deliver Work Capability ...
- 35. DWP awards Atos £10 million IT contract for healthcare assessments
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- The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has awarded Atos a contract worth £10 million a year to continue providing IT services to support work capability assessments after it steps down as the main ...
- 36. A fine problem for Atos
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- In an exclusive report, The Londoner has been told that government contractor Atos was fined £30 million for errors in its delivery of the work capability assessments. It was announced at the time that ...
- 37. Atos was 'lightning rod' for anger over benefit change
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- Atos, the private company quitting its contract to provide assessments for employment & support allowance claimants, warned that its successor will fare just as badly unless the government improves the ...
- 38. The DWP must explain how it will adjust Atos WCAs for mental health claimants
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- Two years ago, two people who claim benefits on mental health grounds initiated a judicial review of the Atos Work Capability Assessment. The two people were supported by the Mental Health Resistance Network. ...
- 39. Harrington: 'I did not trust Atos . . .
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- Professor Malcolm Harrington, who carried out the first three independent reviews of the work capability assessment told the work and pensions committee last week that he 'did not trust Atos', that the ...
- 40. The facts behind Atos death threat claims
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- Benefits and Work has obtained documents via the Freedom of Information Act that may undermine claims by Atos that its staff were the subject of nearly two thousand episodes of assault or abuse, including ...
- 41. Atos judges dying scientist fit to work - despite serious heart condition and brain tumour
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- ... live and recommended a heart transplant as he spent his final months in and out of hospital. But Atos dismissed his fatal ailments, axed his crucial state payments and ordered him back to work. His ...
- 42. Atos out. Five things that will stay the same and one thing that will change – but not for the better.
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- There has been much understandable delight about the announcement that Atos will be exiting its contract to carry out work capability assessment (WCA) early. But what will and what won’t actually change ...
- 43. Atos is out: Government seeks new company to carry out fit for work tests
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- The government has announced it will be seeking a new company to carry out disability assessments, replacing controversial French outsourcing company Atos. The contract was due to extend until August ...
- 44. Life in the PIP queue: DWP, Atos and Capita shamed over new cases
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- ... timescale of waiting is ridiculous. And when we have challenged the DWP and Atos they are blaming each other for the delays." Among the cases DABD has been dealing with is a person with a mental health ...
- 45. 'Liars!' MPs use DNS investigation to accuse Atos over PIP contrac
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- MPs have used evidence provided by Disability News Service (DNS) to accuse the outsourcing giant Atos of lying in the document it used to win a £184 million disability assessment contract. Members of ...
- 46. Atos and Capita could soon become part of 'shadow state', warn MP
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- ... said that an absence of competition for companies such as Atos and Capita - both of which assess disabled people for eligibility for benefits - had led to the growth of "privately-owned public monopolies ...
- 47. Atos targets critical Facebook pages
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- OH Assist, the recently formed occupational health subsidiary of Atos, is reported to have contacted a number of critical Facebook pages asking for them to be removed because they allegedly ‘incite hatred’ ...
- 48. Anger over 'libellous' Atos 'death threat' clai
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- ... The claims were first reported by the Financial Times (FT), the day after a national series of protests over how Atos has treated disabled people being assessed for employment and support allowance. ...
- 49. Peer to quiz watchdog over failure to probe Atos PIP contract concerns
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- ... written to NAO after an investigation by Disability News Service (DNS). That investigation showed how Atos Healthcare won the contract by boasting of its “extensive” network of 16 NHS trusts, two private ...
- 50. Atos responds to news on reassessments for ESA claimants
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- Atos have issued a statement following Benefits and Work’s revelation that repeat ESA medicals are being stopped. It appears the company have been receiving a large number of calls from people wanting ...
- 51. Atos turns on claimants in acrimonious break-up with DWP
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- As the relationship between Atos and the DWP appears to turn increasingly bitter, claimants are being dragged into the row, accused of hundreds of episodes of abuse and assaults against Atos staff. First ...
- 52. Whistles, ripples... and a giant inflatable rat, as Atos faces day of action
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- ... "fitness for work" test. The national day of action saw an estimated 60 protests outside offices used by Atos Healthcare, including actions in Bradford, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, Luton, Glasgow, Brighton, ...
- 53. Tight lips among Atos staff as protesters tell them 'enough is enough' ...
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- Staff working for the outsourcing giant Atos refused to comment this week as disabled activists protested outside their head office about the company's involvement with the government's "fitness for work" ...
- 54. Government figures provide strongest evidence yet of Atos bias
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- New official figures show that the government contractor Atos Healthcare is 50 times more likely to recommend wrongly that someone is "fit for work" than it is to make an error in finding someone not fit ...
- 55. Benefits testing firm Atos wants to quit £500 million government contract EARLY
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- The Mirror reports that the benefits firm Atos wants to end its hated testing regime for the ConDem government - because it says the system "isn't working". A nationwide campaign against the French firm' ...
- 56. Atos may lose WCA contract
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- The government is preparing to oust Atos Healthcare from its £500m contract administering millions of fit-for-work tests for sick and disabled people, according to documents seen by the Guardian. A ...
- 57. Atos boss accused of 'living in a parallel universe' after claiming hated benefits assessor is popular with publi
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- The boss of hated benefit assessor Atos was yesterday accused of “living in a parallel universe” after claiming the public was “satisfied” with the job his firm was doing. Joe Hemming made the claim ...
- 58. Atos National Demo February 19th 2014
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- On the 19th February 2014 people from across the country will gather nationally outside every ATOS centre to peacefully protest the inhumane treatment of people receiving employment support allowance and ...
- 59. Penning causes confusion over Atos contract comments
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- The new minister for disabled people has caused confusion after he appeared to suggest that Atos Healthcare would be withdrawing from delivering the government's "fitness for work" tests in less than two ...
- 60. Claimant alleges Atos travel cheque bounced
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- A Benefits and Work member claims that an Atos cheque for travel expenses for a PIP medical, has bounced. She alleges her daughter is still waiting for her expenses to be paid and that the DWP and ...
- 61. False information from minister raises fresh questions over Atos tender (members only)
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- ... new disability benefit. Mike Penning had been asked by Labour MP Fiona Mactaggart which of the centres provided by Atos Healthcare to carry out assessments for the new personal independence payment (PIP) ...