BBC Reporting Scotland 6pm November 6th 2007

The BBC’s Senior Investigative Journalist Mark Daly’s investigation into Unum, the only company in America that has ever given a “Hungry Vulture Award” to its “deserving employees” with the motto “Patience my foot, I’m gonna kill something” In the UK, in addition to some of its commercially orientated innovations eg Pathways to Work, its Bio-Psycho-Social model, provider of Exclusive Training & Certification of OTs /Government Approved Assessors and “Simply Unum” its HR/Time & Attendance Software; this infamous “outlaw” branded Tennessee based insurance company now re-branded a “Rehabilitation Specialist” Org. has greatly influenced UK government legislation to help produce and push what appears to be self serving “radical” reforms of the British welfare system, national social policy, certain NICE Guidelines, assisted in successfully re-classifying particular physical medical conditions into “mental illness” or behavioural problems [with the prospect of additional serious physical diseases to follow “its all in the mind” academic theory], supported suggestions [which have clearly been taken seriously] that talk therapy (aka Liaison Psychiatry) and “work” or GET can help individuals unfortunate enough to be truly mentally ill, reforming British medical education and the NHS. Now that Unum has the future “happiness” of “underperforming” NHS doctors, the disabled, chronically ill, mentally ill, lone parents and the unemployed sorted, (at up to 62k a pop) perhaps its time

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