MS Research 2022

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

Introduction

The ongoing identified human suffering created by social policy reforms, added to the austerity measures adopted since 2010, renders the chronically ill and disabled community who are unfit to work living in fear of successive neoliberal UK governments. With social policies influenced by corporate America since 1992, the adoption of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) by the Department for Work and Pensions in 2008 to limit access to long-term disability benefit guaranteed that many disability benefit claimants would suffer and die when, quite literally,  ‘killed by the State’ with, as yet, no-one held to account.

Since the conclusion to the Preventable Harm Project (2009-2019), there has been an increased academic interest in the research, with growing requests for this researcher to write for an increasing number of academic journals. It remains cause for concern that the national press continue to fail to alert the British public to the public health crisis created by the blighted social policy reforms; which are ideologically motivated on route to the removal of the UK welfare state which is the adoption of the Thatcher legacy initially identified in the published 1982 Cabinet papers.

During 2022 the findings from the Preventable Harm Project will be promoted to continue to attempt to raise awareness of the public health crisis created by the adoption of the fatally flawed WCA. The research continues.