- The coroner concluded
- at the end of the inquest:
- ‘The anxiety and depression
- were long term problems
- but the intense anxiety
- was caused by his recent assessment
- by the Department
- as being fit for work
- and his view
- of the likely consequences.’
- A former orthopaedic surgeon
- employed by the contractor
- had carried out the assessment,
- concluding that he
- was ‘at no significant risk
- by working.’
- The decision-maker
- did not request
- any reports or letters
- from his doctor
- his psychiatrist
- or his clinical psychiatrist
- had failed to ask him
- if he had suicidal thoughts.
- Six months later
- he took his own life.
[Disability News Service, 02/12/2019, DWP: The Case for the Prosecution]