Complaints about DWP ESA65B letters, telling GPs to stop issuing 'sick-notes'

Claimants can now stop DWP telling GPs to "no longer" issue 'sick notes'
and protect their Patient-Doctor relationship. After DWP updates Data Protection
consent rights for 'Capability for Work' assessments.
(Aug 10th, 2020)
https://mrfrankzola.wordpress.com/2020/08/10/protect-patient-doctor-relationship/

Details of related complaints

‘Netherley dad James Harrison DIES 10 months after DWP tell his GP not to write any more sick notes‘ (29 DEC 2016)
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/netherley-dad-dies-10-months-12379703
> Video: James Harrison’s furious daughter Abbie says Job Centre bosses interfered in the doctor-patient relationship
http://players.brightcove.net/4221396001/V19oeQPdg_default/index.html?videoId=5264614561001
(Source: stop-pip.org)

‘Daughter’s fury after DWP tell doctors not to write sick note for dying father‘ (29 DEC 2016)
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/daughters-fury-after-dwp-tell-9529319

Jobcentre ‘secretly told dying man’s GP to stop giving him sick notes’ (29 Dec 2016)
http://metro.co.uk/2016/12/29/jobcentre-secretly-told-dying-mans-gp-to-stop-giving-him-sick-notes-6349168/

‘Jobcentre tells GP to stop issuing sick notes to patient assessed as ‘fit for work’ and he died‘ (December 2016)
https://kittysjones.wordpress.com/2016/12/31/jobcentre-tells-gp-to-stop-issuing-sick-notes-to-patient-assessed-as-fit-for-work-and-he-died/

Freedom of Information Act requests,
30/12/16 https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/letters_info_sent_to_gps_after_b#outgoing-609342
& 18/1/17 https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/gp_contact_and_wca#incoming-938163


DWP letter to GPs following ESA refusal (19 November 2010) http://www.rightsnet.org.uk/forums/viewthread/709/

Doctor Refusing to Provide Med Cert due to DWP Letter (15 December 2010) http://www.rightsnet.org.uk/forums/viewthread/824/

Where a client “fails” the WCA – does the DWP tell GPs not to issue a medical certificate? (7 July 2011) – https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/where_a_client_fails_the_wca_doe

https://mrfrankzola.wordpress.com/2017/02/16/do-not-tell-gp-outcome-of-your-work-capability-assessment-wca-donotconsent/