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Chris Grayling: Following open, competitive tender, the Department for Work and Pensions re-awarded Atos Origin IT Services Ltd, trading as Atos Healthcare, a new contract to perform medical services on behalf of the Department from 1 September 2005. The total cost of these services amounts to approximately £100 million per annum. This figure not only covers the total number of examinations undertaken...
Chris Grayling: ...Consortium; The Disability Employment Advisory Council; Mencap; MIND; The National Autistic Society; The Parkinson's Disease Society; The Royal College of Psychiatrists; RNIB; RNID; RSI Action; Atos Origin Medical Services; The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development; The Social Security Advisory Committee; and Senior health care professionals from the fields of psychiatry,...
Chris Grayling: ...and support allowance medical assessments are trained in disability assessment medicine. Recruitment criteria for the health care professionals are specified in the contract between DWP and Atos Healthcare. All health care professionals have to be registered with the relevant licensing authority. They must have a minimum of three years post registration experience which may be waived at...
Chris Grayling: Healthcare professionals who undertake medical assessments on behalf of the DWP are paid by Atos Healthcare. DWP pays Atos Healthcare for the services received under the terms of the Medical Services Contract.
Lord Knight of Weymouth: ...There is one other worry regarding assessments, which was raised by the noble Lord, Lord German. When I was a DWP Minister a few months ago, there was only one contractor capable of doing this work-Atos Origin. Does the Minister share my concern that that contractor is already struggling to do the current amount of work on time? What is he doing to get more contractors into that market?...
Chris Grayling: ...sources: benefit claims data held by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) covering new ESA claims that started between October 2008 to August 2009; functional assessment data sourced from ATOS Healthcare covering assessments completed up to February 2010; and appeals data sourced from Tribunals Service covering appeals heard up to February 2010 (and which link to ESA claims up to the...
Chris Grayling: There are no differences between Medical Services standards and the contractual standards. Medical Services standards are specified in the contract between Atos Healthcare and the Department for Work and Pensions.
Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what recent assessment he has made of the level of accuracy of ATOS in assessing the eligibility of people with mental health conditions for employment and support allowance.
Baroness Thomas of Winchester: To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of healthcare professionals employed by Atos Healthcare are (a) doctors, and (b) nurses.
Simon Burns: ...programme for IT in the 2009-10 financial year is given in the following table. Table: Spend on projects undertaken by companies with headquarters outside the UK £ Accenture 10.04 Atos 33.75 Atos Consulting Ltd 1.36 Atos Origin IT Services UK Ltd 2.80 Cable and Wireless UK 23.50 CSC 213.00 CSC Computer Science 0.23 Fujitsu 37.26 Fujitsu...
Bill Kidd: ...part in work-related activity will receive £96.85 per week. In the work-related activity group, which is almost self-explanatory, the amount is £91.40. If someone is deemed to be fit for work by Atos Healthcare, the company that is hired to make the assessments on behalf of the DWP, they are transferred on to jobseekers allowance. As Hugh O'Donnell mentioned, there is widespread concern...
Jonathan R Shaw: The available information is in the table. Total number of incapacity benefit referrals received by Atos Healthcare and the total number where an IB113 form was requested, October 2007 to October 2008. Month Incapacity benefit referrals GP report requested Percentage of referrals where a GP report was requested October 2007 157,450 19,731 13 November 2007 172,627...
Jonathan R Shaw: ... 62,792 4,405 7 October 2009 61,813 4,465 7 November 2009 67,480 5,238 8 December 2009 54,794 4,871 9 January 2010 58,898 5,247 9 Total 62,770 5,163 8 Source: Atos Healthcare Management Information published to the Department for Work and Pensions.
Jennifer Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the highest and lowest salaries were paid to (a) doctors and (b) nurses on (i) part-time and (ii) full-time contracts by Atos Healthcare for the purpose of undertaking incapacity benefit and/or employment and support allowance assessments under her Department's contract with Atos Origin in each of the past five years; and if she will...
Jennifer Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the average number of days worked by (a) doctors and (b) nurses employed on part-time contracts by Atos Healthcare for the purpose of undertaking incapacity benefit and/or employment and support allowance assessments was under her Department's contract with Atos Origin in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.
Jennifer Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the average salary paid to (a) full-time and (b) part-time contracted (i) doctors and (ii) nurses by Atos Healthcare for the purpose of undertaking incapacity benefit and/or employment and support allowance assessments was under her Department's contract with Atos Origin in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.
Jennifer Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many (a) doctors and (b) nurses were employed (i) part-time and (ii) full-time by Atos Healthcare for the purpose of undertaking incapacity benefit and/or employment and support allowance assessments under her Department's contract with Atos Origin in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.
Phil Woolas: ...Home Office and UKBA have current IT contracts in place with 10 IT contractors with a monetary value of over £1 million. The list of contractors is as follows: Home Office and UKBA IT suppliers Atos Origin CSC Fujitsu Hewlett Packard IBM Morse Raytheon Savvis Serco Specialist Computer Centres
Jonathan R Shaw: ..., we do need to see a change in that respect and to consider what people can do, rather than what they cannot. We assess about 30,000 people every month. The professional health care people from Atos must have at least three years' post-qualifying experience. I recently organised a seminar for all Members of both Houses of Parliament, with Atos and Department for Work and Pensions staff,...
Jonathan R Shaw: holding answer 2 March 2010 The average time from the date an employment and support allowance claim starts to the date that Atos advice is given is shown in the following table. Information is provided from October 2008 (when employment and support allowance was introduced) to June 2009 (the latest data that can be used to calculate a reliable average). Average calendar days from...