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Prescription Charges and Health Benefits
23 April 2025 | Resource
The National Health Service (NHS) generally provides health care free of charge. However there are some fixed charges that must be paid for ... updated: 23rd April 2025 Contents Prescription Charges Prepayment certificates Minor ailments scheme Dental Charges ...
Our Into Higher Education has been updated
20 March 2024 | News
Into Higher Education is a guide for anyone with a health condition, learning difficulty or disability thinking about studying in higher education ... as whether colleges or universities will be accessible, how to choose a course and what support will be available. ...
Eighty civil society groups reveal UK failure to meet anti-torture obligations
06 May 2019 | News
... An increasing number of people are being detained under the Mental Health Act, with a 36% rise in the number of detentions ... at Disability Rights UK Sue Bott said: “The report shows that torture remains an issue in some state funded ...
Disability Rights UK are Hiring!
14 June 2023 | Opportunity
Disability Rights UK is the leading charity of it's kind in ... by and for people with lived experience of disability and health conditions. We wish to recruitan Executive Assistant ... people who identify as being LGBTQIA2S+; people who have a mental health condition; and people who identify as working ...
New Delegating Payments Guide
29 January 2015 | News
... that the majority of people needing assistance to make payments due to illness, capability or mobility challenges, ... were also not aware of each of the safer options to make payments, such as a prepaid card or opening up a second account. To help these consumers, a new Pay Your Way consumer advice guide from the Payments Council ...
The budget must deliver great things for disabled people
21 November 2017 | News
... blog, Philip Connolly, Policy and development manager of Disability Rights UK discusses what would be a good or great ... enable people to try work and return to benefits if it doesn’t work out for them. The budget must deliver great ...
Our Into Higher Education Guide has been updated
14 March 2023 | News
Into Higher Education is a guide for anyone with a health condition, learning difficulty or disability thinking about studying in higher education ... as whether colleges or universities will be accessible, how to choose a course and what support will be available. ...
Universal Credit rollout to roll on
20 June 2018 | News
... and we will continue this. We have made changes—advance payments, direct payments to landlords, the two-week housing benefit run-on, ... over to universal credit. They said that the new system had much more flexibility, that most of the cases and examples ...
1 in 7 People in UK Face Hunger and Hardship: New Trussell Research
09 October 2024 | News
New research published today shows that a record 9.3 million people in the UK are facing ... they don’t have enough money to live on. But we know it doesn’t have to be this way. This research shows that ... protected minimum floor in Universal Credit that people’s payments never fall below to limit the deepest hardship ...
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Disability inquiry into access to elected office in the UK
16 May 2021 | News
... is considered ‘disabled’ if they have a physical or mental impairment that has a ‘substantial’ and ... Equality Act, which requires public authorities to consider how their policies or actions affect disabled people and ... MPs. We currently have 5 MPs who are open about having a disability. Moreover, the number of openly disabled Local ...