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The King’s Fund and Disability Rights UK have published a new report: ‘Towards a new partnership between disabled people and health and care services: getting our voices heard’....
27 July 2022
Doctors appear to be more willing to withhold resuscitation from very sick or frail patients since Covid – and have raised the threshold for referral to intensive care, research...
27 July 2022
The Government has published its long-promised action plan to reduce the number of people with learning disabilities and autistic people living in inpatient care.
It is intended to...
27 July 2022
Nearly 75% of Disabled people have experienced negative attitudes or behaviour – including verbal and physical abuse – in the last five years, research by Scope has revealed.
The...
27 July 2022
The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has issued its response to the Social Security Advisory Committee’s (SSAC’s) January 2021 report that made a series of wide-ranging...
25 July 2022
As benefit sanctions exceed pre-COVID highs, interviews carried out by the Public Law Project (PLP) with benefit claimants, advisers, and support workers reveal that people who try to...
22 July 2022
New figures show how the number of secret reviews into deaths of benefit claimants that have been linked to the failings of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has more than...
21 July 2022
New research by Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) warns that people are faced with a “perfect storm” of soaring prices and flat or falling incomes, which risks sweeping tens of thousands...
21 July 2022
Disability organisations have welcomed the changes to the Terms of Reference to the Covid Inquiry, which were confirmed by the Prime Minister.
The Inquiry will specifically review the...
18 July 2022
The government has rejected calls to extend the £650 one-off cost of living payment to people on disability benefits as well as people on means tested benefits.
Around six million...
13 July 2022
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