Under fire French firm Atos Healthcare has won the lion’s share of new Government contracts to carry out new disability benefit assessments.
The firm and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) came in for heavy criticism earlier this week in a BBC Panorama investigation for their approach to reassessing disability claimants’ entitlement to Employment Support Allowance (ESA).
In one rather shocking case a man diagnosed with heart failure died 39 days after being found ‘fit...
