Disabled rights group says initiative blurs lines between healthcare and government’s work programmeDisabled people and benefit claimants are to protest in London against a scheme to embed job coaches with family doctors,which they say will contaminate healthcare with the punitive culture of the government’s work programme.
Critics warn that the scheme jeopardises doctor-patient confidentiality, risks alienating patients from their doctors and perverts the primary role and ethical mission of the healthcare system, or which is to relieve people to recover from illnesses. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com