Lessons learnt Welfare Trends Report 2019
PIP assessments are not “objective medical assessments” … “in reality that is not feasible”
"To draw on the expertise of DWP’s medical advisers involved in the testing and the development of the new assessment criteria, rather than being solely reliant on analysts. This could have highlighted the necessarily subjective nature of the assessment, which was billed in the June 2010 Budget as the introduction of an “objective medical assessment” when in reality that is not feasible." (p.121)
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