MS Research 2021

All MS research since 2014 is available via ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mo_Stewart/publications

Introduction

As identified throughout this website, aided by the reproduction of published academic papers as well as my own research, the human suffering identified by the social policy reforms added to the austerity measures since 2010 renders the chronically ill and disabled community living in fear of successive neoliberal UK governments. As yet, no-one has been held to account for the deaths, despair and preventable harm created by the adoption of the fatally flawed work capability assessment (WCA), as introduced by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to assess the disabled community. Adopting the fatally flawed Waddell-Aylward biopsychosocial model of assessment, which was influenced by corporate America and has failed all academic scrutiny, was always destined to lead to suffering of those in greatest need. The WCA is dangerous and should be abolished.

Although the Preventable Harm Project closed in 2019 I spent 2020 promoting the research findings, which culminated in the online seminar hosted by the Centre for Welfare Reform on 27^th November 2020. There continues to be interest in the research findings, as demonstrated by the article published in January 2021 by the British Journal of General Practice (BJGP), and another article which has just been accepted by the BJGP for publication at some future date.

In 2021 I will continue to promote the findings of the Preventable Harm Project to try to raise awareness of the public health crisis created by the adoption of the fatally flawed WCA.