United Kingdom: Department of Work and Pensions (DWP)

[Trish]

This thread is worth reading about Aylward's impact on DWP and ME/CFS
Blaming the victim, all over again: Waddell and Aylward’s biopsychosocial (BPS) model of disability, 2016, Shakespeare et al

Edit: And this one:
Government and Insurance companies - establishing the BPS model

 

[rvallee]

Direct link, avoiding FB: https://www.disabilitynewsservice.c...ar-failure-to-appoint-a-chief-medical-adviser

Professor Aylward, who died on 29 May this year after a long illness, promised in the interview that he would investigate why the assessment – which was based on the “all work test” he developed in the early 1990s – had been linked to hundreds of suicides between 2010 and 2013.

He told Pring last year: “I have to do some background reading, obviously, but I don’t want something that I was associated with in developing being a cause of so much stress that people commit suicide.”

The gall and hubris of this guy.

He's not associated with it. He's responsible for it. Among many of his peers who pushed the biopsychosocial ideology. And unless he was dumb as a brick, which I doubt, he was fully aware of the suffering and misery he inflicted the whole time. He got everything he wanted and he still hated it.