12 November 2015

Professor Harrington (who carried out the first three independent reviews of the WCA for DWP) says he was not shown Stephen Carré PFD report.

What: Professor Malcolm Harrington, who carried out the first three independent reviews of the WCA for DWP, says he believes he was never shown the PFD report in which a coroner linked the WCA with the suicide of Stephen Carré. He says that, if he had been shown the coroner’s letter, it would almost certainly have led to him making recommendations far earlier about the need to seek further medical evidence.

Why significant: This is DWP’s own independent reviewer of the WCA saying that the department failed to show him a crucial document linking the WCA with the suicide of a claimant.