Yes there’s all this narrative about work incentives (which has nothing to do with PIPS) and nothing about ability to work and what promotes that (which does have to do with PIPS; also non-functioning healthcare).
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Totally. You use a lot of energy navigating a GP appt. Even explaining non-urgent issues in persuasive sentences to gatekeepers (eg GP receptionists) is a huge ask. So I guess the PIP (££ = R&R) offsets a little of that laggy/patchy/poor/inaccessible NHS provision?
I once had to persuade them to give me a double appointment because I was in crisis and good grief that’s something you don’t need when you are in crisis.
I was trying to respect the GP’s schedule by not running over but you’d think I’d asked if I could burn the building down.
Ugh. I’m so sorry. It feels as though the disabled/ill person has to do the salaried professional’s cognitive work in a kind of inverse relationship to the level of care they need 😑
So true. Focussing solely on ‘getting disabled ppl back to work’ without considering the associated costs of societal disablement is ignorant in the extreme
The govt is basing its decisions on an erroneous version of the medical model - i.e. that disability is located in the person, rather than adopting a social model approach which recognises how a lack of societal adjustments and supports creates/exacerbates disablement.
Agreed. And the narrative being pushed that "people just don't want to work" is so dangerous and othering, and detracts from what's genuinely important (like functioning healthcare, accessible and accepting workplaces, and genuinely listening to disabled people)
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I was trying to respect the GP’s schedule by not running over but you’d think I’d asked if I could burn the building down.