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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Guess who's working on a health data-slurping digital tool? Bzzt! Nope, it's the UK Department for Work and Pensions
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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Re: Guess who's working on a health data-slurping digital tool? Bzzt! Nope, it's the UK Department for Work and Pensions
From the same link, Phil Booth (of MedConfidential) responded.
I could not agree more.
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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Re: Guess who's working on a health data-slurping digital tool? Bzzt! Nope, it's the UK Department for Work and Pensions
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.
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.
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Re: Guess who's working on a health data-slurping digital tool? Bzzt! Nope, it's the UK Department for Work and Pensions
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!
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/nhs_dwp_data_sharing_technical_p#incoming-1355966
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!
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/nhs_dwp_data_sharing_technical_p#incoming-1355966
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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.
I think that the DWP has a fundamental distrust of healthcare professionals whose remit is represent patients' best interests.
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