Work Capability Assessment
(asked on 10th October 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the ratio of doctor health care professionals to nurse or physiotherapist health care professionals currently carrying out work capability assessments is in (a) Hemsworth constituency and (b) the UK.
This question was answered on 17th October 2014
Doctors, nurses and physiotherapists are all trained to the same high level to carry out disability assessments on behalf of the DWP.
Staffing levels are not captured at Constituency level. As of October 2014 there are 194 doctors and 576 nurses or physiotherapists in the UK carrying out work capability assessments.