Its a difficult one I suppose.
Clearly there are some people who are fiddling the system, the BBC in its usual leftist slant spent approx. 20 seconds highlighting a few at the start of the programme.
There are others who clearly aren't in a postition to work.
And there are those who could do some form of work.
The problem is how do you find who is who without some form of test. Originally this was done by the GP I believe but abuse was strife, we all know doctors are all too quick at writing out a sicknote so they can move on to the next patient, and the whiplash scam only exists because doctors don't or can't do rigourous enough health checks on their patients to tell the genuine from the conman.
One of the chaps featured in the programme was one of the Govt advisers and he accepted there were issues but that there were changes in the pipeline, implemented in lots of places but not fully rolled out yet, but the BBC wanted to focus on the fact that there faults rather than the fact that faults had been identified and being resolved.
Personally, I've thought for a long time, that its time to bring back community nurses...a whole army of them, employed by the NHS. And funded by scrapping council employed social workers, who constantly fail at what they are meant to do.
A community nurse who lives and works in a community would know her local patients and know who needs help and what kind of help, whether its with benefits, old people needing social help, young teenages in school needing sex advice, young mums who need help bringing up baby....this is surely the role of someone with a medical background, not a degree in sociology.
Another common sense idea that won't get off the ground.
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