<P> In its last term of office New Labour began to phase out Incapacity Benefit and replace it with Employment and Support Allowance . At the same time the Work Capability Assessment became the gateway to the new out - of - work sickness benefit . The policy objectives for the new test were : to accentuate the positive by `` looking at what you can do , not what you ca n't do '' ; to take into account new disability legislation , changes in the workplace and developments in occupational health ; to make the test more stringent ; to assess most new claims in person rather than on paper ; and , once the new test had bedded in , to use it to re-evaluate virtually every established sickness benefit recipient . To facilitate these last two objectives testing capacity was increased fivefold by employing nurses and physiotherapists to work alongside doctors , and a semi-structured interview technique based on a computer - generated template was used for the first time . </P>
<P> In its last term of office New Labour began to phase out Incapacity Benefit and replace it with Employment and Support Allowance . At the same time the Work Capability Assessment became the gateway to the new out - of - work sickness benefit . The policy objectives for the new test were : to accentuate the positive by `` looking at what you can do , not what you ca n't do '' ; to take into account new disability legislation , changes in the workplace and developments in occupational health ; to make the test more stringent ; to assess most new claims in person rather than on paper ; and , once the new test had bedded in , to use it to re-evaluate virtually every established sickness benefit recipient . To facilitate these last two objectives testing capacity was increased fivefold by employing nurses and physiotherapists to work alongside doctors , and a semi-structured interview technique based on a computer - generated template was used for the first time . </P>
who carries out work capability assessments for esa
who carries out work capability assessments for esa
nurses and physiotherapists to work alongside doctors
nurses and physiotherapists to work alongside doctors