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Under the current system, if a patient is signed off from work and has to claim incapacity benefit, they can be sent for a medical examination with a (and I grudgingly use the word) doctor. This "doctor" then asks the patient a series of questions that have no relation to their illness or incapacity. A decision is then made on the patient's capability for work based on this 5 minute interview which results in a significant number of genuinely ill people being declared as being fit for work.

These medicals should be scrapped and the DWP should be made to accept the word of the patient's GP who sees the patient regularly and has a much better idea of the patient's capability for work. If a patient is given a sick note by their GP this should be all the proof the DWP needs of the patients illness

Current signatories

David Thorp, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Gordon Frederick Langtree
• pat neary
• Tracey
• Isabel Guthrie
• Loan Ranger
• Mrs M Willis
• Sofie
• WERNER MULLER
• Yvonne Watson
• Jenny Compton-Bishop
• Andrew Stuart
• Clare Barton
• Warren Clarke
• Darren Cogman
• karen smith
• mr wwhippy
• Gill Cole
• Dawn Call
• Deanna Carr
• susan manterfield
• Viv Whitehead
• A Johnson
• Karen Francis
• Trudy French
• Mrs C Hallett
• Linda Ellis
• LYNDA EVANS
• patrick neary
• Linda Williams
• Heather Rimmer
• RENFORD MORRIS
• Sharon Burke
• Wendy Howell
• PETER HOWARD