Dr Sarah Wollaston the chair of the Health Select Committee, described the proposals as “unethical, unworkable nonsense” and “complete tosh”
Plans to strip benefits from the mentally ill unless they agree to treatment were savaged as "complete tosh” today – by an influential TORY MP.
Dr Sarah Wollaston, the chair of the Health Select Committee, said the proposal was “unethical,
unworkable nonsense” and “fundamentally flawed”.
unworkable nonsense” and “fundamentally flawed”.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith is looking at forcing claimants with depression or
anxiety to undergo therapy as a condition of getting sickness benefits.
anxiety to undergo therapy as a condition of getting sickness benefits.
But Dr Wollaston said: “Presumably this complete tosh planted by someone who has no understanding of consent to treatment.”
Posting on Twitter, she added: “When I say it’s a ‘no brainer’ I mean this unethical, unworkable kite flying comes from someone with no brain.”
