It’s surprising what you can find on the Gov.uk website isn’t it?
This is the latest offering of the unholy trinity of George Osborne, David Cameron and that all round good egg Ian Duncan Smith.
Some of you who know me will be aware that I am a qualified nurse.
During my training I was seconded to work in a psychiatric hospital.Unlike George, David and Ian, I learnt first hand that mental health is a complex issue.
Consultant psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses know that the issue is complex.And yet, just like the work capability assessment, the DWP are once again riding roughshod over highly trained people in the psychiatric field.
How dare they quite frankly … How dare they think that they know better than those who are qualified in mental health issues.
They are now bidding for contracts using taxpayers money to bring in online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
You can read a bit more about CBT here
What you will notice if you read the link, is that the “therapist” yes that’s right THERAPIST, not a computer or Ian Duncan Smith or any of his cronies, a real person who assesses the patient and can obtain immediate feedback based on responses from the patient.
Failure to correctly monitor and assess those suffering with exogenous or endogenous depression is that suicide is a very real outcome.
Ask your MP about this one folks when they come to your door touting for votes.
Online Supported Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS
Open future opportunity – This means that the buyer is not yet ready to invite bid applications but early notification has been provided and some dialogue may be possible.
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Contract summary
Industry
Other Services
Location of contract
Any region
Value of contract (£)
£21,000,000
Published date
19 March 2015
Approach to market date
10 April 2015
Contract start date
04 January 2016
Contract end date
30 March 2018
Description
The Autumn Statement signalled the Government’s commitment to improving mental health and employment outcomes, building on evidence-based interventions that improve the employment and health prospects for people with common mental health problems. Research suggests that being out of work for long periods of time is damaging to health, social and financial well-being, and the longer someone is off sick, the harder it is for them to get back to work. The Mental Health Taskforce, launched in December 2014 and chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister, has focused interest particularly on mental health and employment. It recognises mental health is a mainstream issue and the Taskforce asked Government Departments to look at developing new policies that would strengthen the support offered to people with mental health conditions. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Department of Health (DH) collaborated to produce a package of measures As a part of these measures, DWP is considering the procurement of online supported Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) provision across the whole of England. This provision is designed to support people with common mental health conditions to prepare for and move into work, with intervention at the earliest possible point in a claim to benefit or access to the Fit for Work service. Specifically we would require a supported service (with for example telephone or live online support or online face-to-face therapy), in line with National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) approved treatment. We anticipate awarding at least two contracts, lasting for approximately two years from the date of commencement. These contracts are expected to begin in early 2016.
About the buyer
Contact name
Les Eley
Address
DWP 2nd Floor Silvan House
231 Corstorphine Road
Edinburgh
EH12 7AT
Scotland
Telephone
0131 310 1139
Website
Other information
Spend profile
| Financial year | Budget |
|---|---|
| 2016/2017 | £10,500,000 |
| 2017/2018 | £10,500,000 |
How to apply
Please apply directly to the buyer using the contact details provided
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This “Toolkit’ for advisors and work coaches nicely fits in with what they are now planning……
Click to access DWP%20EWTK…pdf
Couldnt make this up…. except…. it seems like history repeating itself….. takes me back to 1984
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It just makes me soooo angry loobitzh.
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This also feeds into their agenda….. for In work claimants….. so much for their denials of so much pt work etc….. its all part of their long term plan….. their only interests is creating more slaves for their corporate buddies…. I heard some ah from the government calling Britain ‘The WorkFactory’ of Europe;… Looks like we are competing with China and India…. CBT is just another Behavioural Insights Idea to coerse the workforce to accept anything that is thrown their way….. Paid Slaves……
Read this: This is the kind of thoughtful research the Gov carries out in order to get approval for their Policies. Then they just take the bits they want and discard the rest…
Click to access summary-of-ideas.pdf
This was then followed with:
Click to access improving-inwork-outcomes.pdf
Along with:
Click to access smarter%20sanctions.pdf
No doubt youve seen these before, but doesnt hurt recirculating them for those who havent seen the bigger picture unfolding in the background.
makes me angry too, and sometimes despairing.
All these jobs they are creating using Private corporations, is one thing, but whats even harder to accept is that they will be recruiting professionals who would ordinarily be working for the NHS>…… Depriving the NHs of a workforce. Ive read that there is now a shortage of paramedics, as companies like ATOS Capita and Maximus have been on a recruitment drive offering larger salaries as incentives to get health care professionals to jump ship…… Where will it all end!!!!
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It will be interesting to see who bids for this “contract”
I have a real problem with people making money out of the mentally ill; it may not be illegal (though it should be) but it is certainly immoral.
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Funny they are never short of money for their fruitcake schemes. Years ago I provided admin support for a Mental Handicap/Mental Illness Team. People had very serious problems – genetic/birth damage/vaccine damage/consequences of illness & accidents/serious behavioural problems. If they weren’t really serious problems we didn’t see them. It was during Thatcher’s “care in the community” (throw them on the street and send SWs to chase after them for 1 hour a week). Resources were hugely inadequate even then. So what is going on? Political hi-jacking of resources from genuine need to pursue a political agenda? Is this some loony religious cult ideology that mental illness/handicap is only imaginary, “all in the mind”. State definition of “normal” is what exactly? Passive acceptance of slavery for the common folk. Limitless greed and arrogance from the “ruling” elite? (Sorry for ranting – the Machiavellian mind-twisting games our political class play make me furious).
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