So the doctor says to their patient “I’ve got some good news, and some bad new. The bad news is you’ve only got six months to live … but the good news is that I’ve found you a temporary job working in Poundland.”
You might have noticed that this joke is not very fucking funny. But this is the dream of council bureacrats in one London borough who are developing a horrifying strategy for local healthcare which will see “employment viewed as a clinical outcome.”
Whilst the final plans for Iain Duncan Smith’s localised Health and Work Programme have not yet been released, the Labour dominated Borough of Islington are jumping aboard the gravy train early and have set up their own scheme to tackle what they call ‘health-related worklessness’. In a report published in 2014 the so-called Islington Employment Commission – a bunch of local employers, councillors, Jobcentre busy-bodies…
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