to think six months' wait for an ATOS disability medical is unacceptable?

[Corygal]

with another 6 months to come?

Been waiting for a medical assessment since January. Granted home visit - but no date offered at any point. Atos have staunchly refused any contact, except when approached to give the default answer '4-6 weeks', every time they're asked. You have to track them down quite hard, incidentally, to make contact. The DWP give you the number after a couple of hours' searching.

None of the 4-6 weeks periods has materialised in any contact or even a date.

Atos then say they haven't got doctors available for home visits in London.

Is there anything we can do? The service is unacceptable, inadequate, and under the circs bordering on the cruel.

Not to mention that benefits owed to said sick person are now well into four figures.

Contact CAB or welfare rights in the area they will be able to put the appropriate pressure on. Good luck but its very unreasonable to wait that long.

atos mucked around DM loads. if you're getting no joy try your local mp. DJ's was fantastic and rally helped move things along

dm's even

YY to contacting MP - it is amazing how efficient they can become when they are under scrutiny

I'll try that - what should I expect? Can the MP actually magic forth a doc to perform a medical?

in my dm's case the mo wrote to them and suddenly they decided they weren't turning her down, she needed a medical! then when they turned her down from that as she subsequently went on to have a really nasty accident doing something they said she should be able to do (because oddly, she wasn't able to) he sent quite a nasty letter. she got her money from the date of the second accident and tribunal for the first claim. mp put into that too and she won her tribunal. was as long hard slog but without what seemed like not much from the mp she may be nowhere.

there's no harm, and if they think theyre being watched like pp says, I bet they will magic up a Dr.

Try this.

Sounds about right for those cunts :(

I'll try that - what should I expect? Can the MP actually magic forth a doc to perform a medical?

My mum was so messed around by them that she emailed IDS directly in a complete rage. He actually rang her up the following day to say he was sorting it out for her. 2 days later a doctor from the DWP (not ATOS) turned up at her house to carry out an assessment and by a week everything was sorted.

IDS rang her again afterwards to check if it was all sorted. She said, 'Yes. Thank you. But I'm still not voting for you.'