British Labour Party politician and the leader of Camden London Borough Council since May 2017 Georgia Gould has ignored all emails put to her. Camden Councils Shaun Flook, Head of Housing Needs (pictured).
A hate crime “Legal Definition of Hate Crime. Any criminal offence which is perceived by the victim, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice towards someone based on a personal characteristic. Eg Disability.”
Director of Supporting people in Camden, Martin Pratt should perhaps do as his job suggests, support!
NowMedical willfully and routinely carries out acts of discrimination in their housing reviews. They also routinely violate Academic, Scientific and Medical research when concluding their findings in their £30 assessments.
Camden Councils Mike Cooke, Shaun Flook (pictured), Damien Dwyer and Martin Pratt, Executive Director of Supporting People Camden (pictured), ignore phone calls and emails put to them regarding Now medical routinely ignoring Academic and Scientific research when assisting their Council (Camden Council) with medical reports.
In 2017 Richard Dummett at Camden Council wrote a housing review on a vulnerable individual.
It has since been exposed Richard Dummett has no understanding of mental health. He wrote a review that relied heavily on the advice of Camden’s in-house medical advisor Neil Steadman. The medical officer Neil Steadmans notes said “ Tenant Claims of being unable to “establish healthy boundaries” with Landlord — I’m unclear what exactly this means… She reports how this has had a detrimental effect on her recovery, caused emotional distress, and caused her health to deteriorate. However, over this time she has continued to manage to work in media, and contribute to online news and blogs”. Mr Steadman was not only displaying institutional incompetence his remarks on mental health were unfounded, uneducated, biased and based on a prejudicial attitude in contravention of the single equality act 2010 (illegal). — None of Neil Steadman’s opinions draws upon medical evidence or medical findings, however, despite facts Richard Dummett was allowed to write his review.
Camden Councils Richard Dummett concluded in his review that bad housing, unsuitable and unstable housing can’t cause anxiety and panic attacks.
One of the Country’s top psychiatrist refuted Dummett statement and said “There is widely published evidence-based research that unequivocally proves the adverse impacts of poor quality housing. It also shows that the persistence of bad housing problems is predictive of worse mental health. Considering the vulnerability of the patient and the complexity of her mental health illnesses, she is more susceptible to these adverse effects”.
In August 2017 Nowmedicals Dr Eskander did a paper-based desk assessment for Camden Council’s Daisy Akinlade on the same applicant as Neil Steadman had previously done.
Dr Eskander adjudicated that the patient does not have a severe and enduring mental illness. However, the patients leading psychiatrist disagreed with the NowMedical report and their opinion. The leading psychiatrist stated that the patient suffered from several severe and enduring mental illnesses as diagnosed in the ICD-10 and the mental health act 1983. The leading psychiatrist felt that it was paramount importance to accept this for the patient to move forward with the appropriate care and support level. The leading psychiatrist stated this should not be an issue of dispute.
The assessment further provided by Dr Eskander at Now medical was also of the opinion that “medication was the first-line type of antidepressant and nothing above and beyond what is commonly prescribed for someone with depression and anxiety”.
The leading Psychiatrist for the patient refuted this claim by Now medical and stated that medication is only part of the biopsychosocial approach to managing the patient's multiple psychological difficulties and severe and enduring mental illnesses.
The patients leading psychiatrist draws on scientific evidence which clearly states that individuals with the health disorders akin to those his patient has that medication is not the first nor the main line of treatment and as such the dose of the prescribed antidepressant not it being the first line, should be used to judge the severity and enduring nature of her illnesses and as a result, she was deprived her entitlement for an inclusion into the social housing register.
A year later, In October 2018 Nowmedicals Dr Wilson wrote another desk-based ‘independent assessment’ on the same patient for Camden Councils, Sandra Bent and Christopher Williams. Now medicals Dr Wilson concluded that the patient has “a significant history of psychiatric conditions that warrant treatment and that are disabling”.
The patients leading psychiatrist was “clinically, medically, and psychiatrically relieved and satisfied that Now medical had moved away from rejecting the evidence that she does suffer from a severe and enduring mental illness (as per Dr Eskander's report) to accepting it (as per Dr Wilson's report)
Despite this, the patients leading psychiatrist noted that Now medical ‘experts’ consistently refused to accept the adverse impact of unstable, insecure accommodation in general on the mental health and illnesses, despite the breadth of scientific research to support how it can adversely impact on individuals suffering from the mental illnesses akin to those as the patient.
Dr Wilson acknowledged “ the applicant has lived in various locations throughout her adult life and at times been homeless”. The leading psychiatrist felt that the acceptance by Dr Wilson of the facts of her previous suffering, significant vulnerability and the unstable accommodation she had throughout the years, is in his opinion a clear indication of her entitlement for high eligibility, especially at the stage of her life when for the first time she has been offered a treatment programme for a major factor in her emotional vulnerability, which carries a risk of completed suicide.
Self-proclaimed expert at Now medical, Dr Keen wrote “for medical priority to apply under LBS allocation policy, there needs to be a serious impact of the current housing. The impact must be serious, an ordinary adverse impact does not apply. I don’t think this threshold is met in this case., so medical priority does not apply”. Dr Keen considered completed suicide to be a minor medical issue.
The leading psychiatrist refuted Dr Keen's findings. He stated, In my opinion, the patient has been a vulnerable person for most of her life and remains so for the foreseeable future, even after treatment is completed. This vulnerability coupled with multiple comorbid mental illnesses and risks put her as a high priority as any adverse factor will have an “amplified” psychological and behavioural serious impact with increased risks of self-harm and completed suicidality.
The leading psychiatrist for the patient further stated that such risks are well documented and studied as an association with the mental illnesses and the diagnoses she has and were accepted by Now medical Dr Wilson- Dr Keen's colleague.
The leading psychiatrist also wrote in his report to Christopher Williams at Camden Council who cited the factor that lack or a limited number of housing is a reason to dismiss the patient of her housing needs. The leading psychiatrist wrote “ Limited or lack of housing facilities available is independent of eligibility or depriving her of the points she is entitled to”.
One of the other reasons for refusal for housing needs is the chronicity of her illness, Now medicals Dr Wilson states “rehousing was unlikely to improve the applicant's condition. The condition is chronic and has been present for many years regardless of the type or location, on this basis I do not think medical priority occurs- Dr Wilson”.
The leading psychiatrist refuted this claim. The leading psychiatrist states “To say that her illness is chronic is not disputed but to use the nature of the illness to deprive her of the chances of recovery that in itself needed to be aided by having stable accommodation, that she has not had for many years. He continued she is currently having a positive attitude to treatment, hence her chances of recovery are more and better once stable accommodation is provided”.
The leading psychiatrist's opinion was “not giving her suitable accommodation on the grounds of chronicity is like sentencing her to the poor outcome and halting any chances of her to improve and regain her life and function properly. The lack of stability and uncertainty of having a suitable accommodation is a perpetuating factor that impedes the chances of recovery and in her situation in particular — accessing treatment”.
In his report the leading psychiatrist of the patient thought that a narrow definition of medical illness that focuses on physical ability with little attention to long-lasting psychological disability was applied in accessing the case, “There is no evidence provided indicating that the applicant’s current property cannot be improved or adapted to meet her needs at a reasonable cost- Dr Wilson, Now medical”. The patient's psychiatrist also concluded that little attention was applied to accessing vulnerability factors in her condition.
When writing the stage two review, Camden Councils Cherry Cabey whose facebook page says she is “working hard for god”, ignored, dismissed and failed to acknowledge the leading psychiatrist's third report that was emailed to her and Shaun Flook.
Cherry Cabey ignored more evidence including a separate letter saying treatment had been stopped until the patient was in a safe home away from potential dangers, dangers that include forced prostitution. Cherry Cabey relied on using Dr Keen and Paula Harris (Camden Councils, Occupational therapist) to rubbish one of the Country's top psychiatrists.
It has been questioned if the English language was Cherry Cabeys first language because she failed to understand vital comments in the psychiatrist's report about risk evaluation. The leading psychiatrist says there were no discrepancies in his reports as one refers to the risk on the time of assessment and the high risk overall for the conditions the patient has.
All vulnerabilities were ignored again and the patient is still at risk of forced prostitution, (human trafficking).
It’ is up to the reader to draw upon their make it up as they go along conclusions, but to the author, it looks as though this is nothing other than a Hate Crime by Camden Council and the Now medical Cowboys. However, with the evidence presented it is clear that Now medical are failing to assist Councils with medical honesty and integrity, and therefore failing to safeguard some of the Countries most vulnerable individuals.