Maximus fit-for-work tests fail mental health patients, says doctor

Whistleblower criticises benefits scheme run by US company, saying criteria meant he had to diagnose claimants as being well

Maximus fit-for-work tests fail mental health patients, says doctor

Demonstration outside the Department of Work and Pensions last year against Maximus taking over work capability assessments. Photograph: Peter Marshall/Demotix/Corbis   People with mental health problems are still being wrongly assessed by a “severely flawed” system intended to find whether they are entitled to state help, according to a doctor who was charged with improving […]