In a guest post, Kayleigh Garthwaite talks about her recent research with sickness benefit claimants. Prompted by a hostile email from a GP after speaking about her research recently on national radio, Kayleigh reflects on the real barriers that sickness benefit claimants face, and the challenges of living in a climate of institutionalised suspicion.
What does it mean for sickness benefit claimants to live in a climate of suspicion?
An excellent post from Kayleigh Garthwaite on the Inequalities blog. The research highlighted was carried out in the North East and the blog is well worth reading in full, especially the response from a GP to her appearance on Radio 4!
Thanks, as ever, the the Inequalities blog for allowing us to re-blog it here.
