Who's Cheating Who. ESA. ATOS Healthcare PART 2/3

Atos Healthcare has the £80million-per-year contract for 7 years to act for Department of Work & Pensions (DWP) to 'assess' sick people claiming Employment Support Allowance (ESA). Atos have been working to the previous government's target of pushing 1 million claimants onto Jobseekers' Allowance, and there are some well-documented abuses of vulnerable individuals such as refusing to allow note-taking or tape-recording of the assessment, failing to report truthfully where the claimant has demonstrated incapacity, inadequate facilities for those who are ill during an assessment, a computer system which gives garbled versions of examinations to DWP and various other abuses. The petition (to the two leaders of the coalition government) is: We, the undersigned, call upon Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg to terminate Atos Healthcare's contract with immediate effect, to pay the enhanced rate to all claimants whose claim is over 13 weeks old and to pay basic rate ESA to all other claimants. We call for a return to family doctors as the primary source of information as to whether an individual is too sick to work, not a profit-driven plc. We further call for a new approach to the sick by government whereby such vulnerable people cease to be treated as 'scroungers' particularly when many of these individuals as taxpayers have paid into the NHS, in some cases for many years. IF YOU WISH TO SIGN THE PETITION PLEASE GO TO THE FOLLOWING LINK AND CLICK ON "SIGN THE PETITION": http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/sack-atos-healthcare.html