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Government Launches New PIP Assessment Review
14 May 2025 | News
... has now initiated a review of the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment process. The review was first muted ... shifts in the nature of long-term conditions and disability, as well as changes in wider society and the workplace. However, the Green Paper says that the review will be “a ...
MPs debate PIP processing progress
25 November 2014 | News
Commons MPs debated the processing of Personal Independence Payment PIP decisions on Tuesday 25 November 2014 The ... Between them, Atos and Capita have: doubled the number of health professionals working through recruitment and ... their output since January. The July PIP statistics show that, by then, the number of decisions had increased to ...
DR UK gives evidence to Financial Exclusion Committee
12 September 2016 | News
... UK Mr Philip Connolly, Policy and Communications Manager, Disability Rights UK DR UK would like to thank those who ... to tackle financial exclusion assisted your members? How effective are targeted interventions to assist the most ... how might the POCA be used to address financial exclusion? Does technology represent an opportunity or threat to the ...
Response to Fulfilling potential: making it happen
03 July 2013 | News
... POTENTIAL – MAKING IT REALLY HAPPEN FOR DISABLED PEOPLE Disability Rights UK welcomes the publication today of a set ... communities. We believe this will be the real test of how much progress is being made for example whether the ...
Half of disabled travellers feel they can’t fly, finds Which? survey
13 January 2020 | News
... once again to the hotel manager that accessibility does not mean a lift with five steps up to it.” The RiDC ...
New body to tackle health disparities set to launch
07 September 2021 | News
The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) will officially launch on 1 October with the aim of tackling health inequalities across the country. It will be co-led by ... Dr Jeanelle de Gruchy. Read more here . New body to tackle health disparities set to launch ...
Government health and care preparations for a No Deal scenario
06 December 2018 | News
... Read letter Matt Hancock MP Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has produced an update of measures ... covers the NHS workforce following Brexit. Government health and care preparations for a No Deal scenario ...
Getting Things Changed Conference
24 May 2018 | News
... into practice. Sue Bott CBE, Deputy Chief Executive of Disability Rights UK, said: "Disability Rights UK were ... the evidence that many public institutions could do much better to promote the rights of disabled people and ... preferably led by disabled people, to monitor and report on how they’re adhering to the Equality Act 2010. Disability ...
The Valuable 500 hits its CEO target
19 May 2021 | News
... goal of 500 international organisations committing to put disability inclusion on their board agenda, making it the ... and their friends and family. While the new research shows stark findings on disability inclusion across the FTSE ... Kamran Mallick said: “The Valuable 500 has achieved so much in such a short space of time. This is a great ...
MPs say reform of DWP's terminal illness rules needed not just change to guidance
29 April 2019 | News
... the DWP’s ‘special rules’ guidance but says more fundamental reform is needed. Note: If you are considered to be ... both medical treatments and the whole system and levels of disability benefits have changed significantly since a 2010 ... substitute for actually changing the law that is causing so much unnecessary distress. The Department recently told us ...