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Guess who's working on a health data-slurping digital tool? Bzzt! Nope, it's the UK Department for Work and Pensions

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Post by Welfare-Champion Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:56 am

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/19/dwp_health_data_tool/

Anyone here keen to build tool to get 'right support' for sick, disabled?
By Rebecca Hill 19 Feb 2019 at 09:25 46 Reg comments SHARE ▼
The UK's Department for Work and Pensions is drawing up plans for an internal service that allows it to automate slurps of medical data on claimants to dole out health-related benefits.

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Post by Caker Thu Feb 21, 2019 3:55 pm

From the same link, Phil Booth (of MedConfidential) responded.

Phil Booth wrote:
"Automating bad processes doesn't improve them – it makes them worse. And if it [DWP and its assessors] won't trust the information it already gets from NHS professionals, why should DWP have even more?"

I could not agree more.
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Post by Welfare-Champion Sat Mar 02, 2019 11:47 am

The downside of having access to medical records:

The state is policing social security claimants in hospital and via their medical records to find reasons to cut their support.

https://politicsandinsights.org/2019/03/01/the-state-is-policing-social-security-claimants-in-hospital-and-via-their-medical-records-to-find-reasons-to-cut-their-support/

If you claim PIP/ESA etc. you have to give DWP consent to access your medical records. However, DWP rarely requests medical evidence and it relies on the Tribunal doing so, which prolongs the suffering for the claimant. Sad

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Post by Pintel Thu Jun 06, 2019 3:39 pm

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/558004/response/1355966/attach/html/3/IR2019%2013274%20Reply.pdf.html

Been reading this link it says: "GPs don't always have / understand information about citizens' 'functional capability', therefore route needed to more relevant medical professionals, such as secondary and
community care providers.”

Well if a GP with so many years training can't understand information about a person's health, who can someone to how has done a 2x week dwp course do!  Rolling Eyes

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/nhs_dwp_data_sharing_technical_p#incoming-1355966
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Post by Caker Thu Jun 06, 2019 6:50 pm

I am sure a GP is perfectly capable of understanding functional capability following detailed questioning of a patient.

I think that the DWP has a fundamental distrust of healthcare professionals whose remit is represent patients' best interests.
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