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This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Change the Way Incapacity Benefit is awarded and the way it is reviewed. More details
Submitted by Fiona Stevenson of brafittingawareness.co.uk – Deadline to sign up by: 06 April 2008 – Signatures: 73
More details from petition creator
We the undersigned petition the PM to change the way Incapacity Benefit is determined following major surgery. Hospital staff should automatically be allowed to issue a sick note for either 3 months or 6 months depending on the seriousness of the condition so that patients don't have to queue outside a doctors surgery in order to obtain a sick note when they should be recuperating.
This adds to their stress and sets back recovery. Incapacity Benefit should automatically be granted for people with major surgery and they should not have to show their scars to prove what operations they have had in order to get a sick note. This system as it stands is a disgrace and bureaucrats should reconsider the implications of this current system as it stands. Please please help change it.
Current signatories
Fiona Stevenson, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- Debbie Aitken
- Paula Hanson
- Natasha
- Stephen Johnson of Continuing Care Campaign.info
- Fran Dodds
- Kim Poulston
- C V Elliott
- michelle osborne
- Charles Huddleston
- karen harris
- Stephen Smith
- Jean Milne
- Susan Diana
- Jena Anderson
- kathryn
- michelle clark
- Valerie Knights.
- Wendy
- Angie Skuse
- Gillian
- tina cooper
- Robert Hedley
- Charlie Richardson
- Fiona Daley
- Elna Harris
- Ian Harris
- Isabella Milne
- Paul
- kris hawkins from wwwfightforheating.com
- Barbara BOakes
- julie stuart
- Joanne Burrows
- Alison Newby
- Dawn Bancroft member of vaco.co.uk
- Nicola Young
- Perpetua Mills
- Rodger Stanley Williams
- Tony Rhodes ( National Carers Forum )
- Susannah Kingsbury
- Laura McPhail
- Sarah Tustin
- Helen Turner
- Jane Thomas
- Kayleigh Turner
- Rebecca Collins
- Chris Collins
- Andrew Garside
- Anne-Marie Fewell
- Anne Marigold
- james heathford
- Margaret King
- E Sanders
- Mandy Boffy
- Paul Streeting
- Warren Clarke
- ANGELA PALMERTON
- Ian Pugh
- dawn cox
- sharon zeqiri
- Linda Ruhback
- emma birkett
- Rebecca James
- Mrs G Jansen
- John McConnell
- Tracy Ann May
- mike dungate
- Tina
- Suzanne Bessent
- Kelly Harris
- Nicola Reed
- Susan Blake
- PETER HOWARD
