links related to #onthesick and #panorama.

hi.. keeping all the links together. first the links to the tv shows (probably only work for a while)

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/episode-guide/series-117/episode-1
channel4 dispatches-britain on the sick

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01lldrc/Panorama_Disabled_or_Faking_It/
bbc panorama - disabled or faking it

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/articles/britain-on-the-sick-reporter-feature
Britain on the Sick: Reporter Feature

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jul/27/disability-benefit-assessors-film?newsfeed=true
Atos assessors told to keep disability benefit approvals low, film suggests. (firday 27th july)

GP applied for job with Atos assessing whether benefit applicants were fit for work, and secretly filmed his training
 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2180833/Off-sick-decade--acne-cough-The-astonishing-cases-885-000-benefit-claimants.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Off sick for a decade... with acne or a cough! The astonishing cases among 885,000 benefit claimants

 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9436969/Disability-tests-sending-sick-and-disabled-back-to-work.html 
Prof Malcolm Harrington, the government appointed adviser on testing welfare claimants, admitted the work fitness test was “patchy”.


 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2181480/Paralympics-just-genuinely-disabled-able-achieve-compared-scroungers.html
The Paralympics will show us just how much disabled people can achieve, and shame despicable benefits cheats


 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2180899/Flawed-disability-tests-send-genuinely-sick-unable-work.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Flawed disability tests 'send those who are genuinely sick and unable back to work'

http://benefitscroungingscum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/panorama-disabled-or-faking-it.html  Panorama has revealed evidence of disabled or sick people being cleared as fit to work by the Government’s Work Capability Assessment in spite of medical advice given by their own GPs.

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/jul/30/tv-review-panorama-disabled-faking?newsfeed=true  review of disabled or faking it.

http://oxfordstudent.com/2012/07/29/atos-healthcare-still-profiting-from-misery/ Whilst the Olympic opening ceremony, quite fairly, glorified our National Health Service, it is nonetheless worth remembering the real state of affairs for a significant number of Britain’s sick.

 http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/staggers/2012/07/work-capability-assessments-fightback  Encouraging news out of the High Court on Thursday for opponents of the loathed Atos' work capability assessments (WCAs) : the court granted permission to two disabled people for a judicial review to challenge the operation of WCAs.

  http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/31/benefits-and-targets-sickness-and-disability-are-not-the-same/ Benefits and targets: Sickness and disability are not the same

 http://www.publicfinance.co.uk/news/2012/07/government-urged-to-end-negative-rhetoric-on-benefit-claimants/ Government urged to end negative rhetoric on benefit claimants

 http://www.4rfv.co.uk/nationalnews.asp?id=148179#.UBftL3D8lKA.twitter  Disabled People Worry About ‘Benefit Scrounger’ Discrimination

 http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2012/07/31/tough-love-or-tough-luck-assessing-disability-benefits/ Tough love or tough luck: assessing disability benefits

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/31/disabled-people-benefits-panorama?CMP=twt_gu   Sick and disabled people are being pushed off benefits at any cost

As Panorama showed, the pressure on medical assessors to declare sickness benefits claimants fit for work is immense

 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4463724/Lazy-benefit-cheats-give-people-like-me-a-bad-name.html

 Lazy benefit cheats give people like me a bad name

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2181365/Out--Boss-incapacity-benefit-crackdown-called-humanity.html

Out... Boss of incapacity benefit crackdown who called for more humanity

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19048294  Benefit cheats 'colour attitudes to disabled people'
 http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/122071 Pressure piles up on sick profiteers Atos

http://www.scope.org.uk/news/blogs/scope-blog/dispatches-wca scopes blog

http://benefitscroungingscum.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/q-when-is-target-not-target-when-its.html?m=1 when is a target not a target
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/steven-bick-doctor-claims-government-1172457#.UBZceS3hi1Q.twitter 'Driving disabled off benefits': Doctor claims Government has issued targets for 7 out of 8 to be reclassified as eligible for work

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19046447  Reviewer of fitness-to-work benefit tests to stand down

http://allbigideas.blogspot.com/2012/07/on-sick.html my review of on the sick

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/31/disabled-cuts-paralympic-games-atos?newsfeed=true
Disabled anti-cuts campaigners take the fight to the Paralympic Games

Activists to protest against sponsorship of the Games by Atos, the private firm that carries out government fitness-for-work tests

http://www.newint.org/blog/2012/07/31/atos-stories-plays/
Raising the curtain on Atos

 http://www.mirror.co.uk/money/personal-finance/32-disability-benefit-claimants-die-1197304
 A company that tests the sick and disabled for benefits told dozens of people they were fit for work – shortly before they died.

 http://mikesivier.wordpress.com/2012/08/01/disability-benefits-whos-really-faking-it/
Earlier this week, both Channel 4 and the BBC gave us new documentaries about the way disabled people’s claims for state benefits are assessed. On Channel 4, Dispatches offered “Britain on the sick“, while the BBC’s Panorama was entitled “Disabled, or faking it?”. Both are available to watch on the web at the following addresses:

 http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2012/07/tough-love-and-fitness-to-work/
 By some quirk of planning, Channel 4 and BBC Two ended up showing two very similar programmes last night about the mess of the assessments that determine whether a sick or disabled person is able to work.