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General Election manifestos 2017
01 June 2017 | News
... - the money released will be transferred directly to health and social care re pensioners - maintain free bus ... do so will not bring the European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights into UK law will look into repealing or ... on Human Rights for the duration of the next parliament - however British troops will in future be subject to the Law ...
DR UK urges you to complete PIP replacement consultation launched by group with lived experience of the social security system
12 February 2025 | News
... System, with a detailed proposal for an Additional Costs Disability Payment. The Commission on Social Security are a ... in the social security system and what works, and what doesn’t”. After a project hiatus 2023-24, the Commission ... Paper aimed a making £3 billion of cuts to disability and health benefits expenditure. As the Commission says, the ...
Free iPads for care homes ‘not enough’ says DR UK
30 September 2020 | News
... won’t solve this problem and connecting via a device doesn’t work for everyone, but it will help some families ... needs to provide care homes with clear guidance on how to facilitate face to face visits where it is safe to do ... people human contact with loved ones has serious impacts on mental health.” Free iPads for care homes ‘not enough’ ...
Incapacity and disability benefit claimants feel particularly hard hit during coronavirus outbreak, MPs find
26 April 2020 | News
... found they are unable to claim any benefits. The survey shows that incapacity and disability benefit claimants feel ... how we have been left, disgraceful.” Individuals with mental health conditions described how social distancing measures ...
Strategic partner updates for January 2014
14 January 2014 | News
... on Disability Rights UK’s events and workplan, and on how this will support local user-led organisations and ... on work in Southampton (Solent NHS Trust for both acute and mental health: end February), Dudley (NHS Acute Trust: 28 ... and to do so transparently so that poor patient experience does not go undetected and excellence can be celebrated. For ...
National Audit Office publishes findings on NHS continuing healthcare
04 July 2017 | News
NHS continuing healthcare (CHC) is a package of care provided outside of ... care services, some of which the individual may have to pay for. Key findings of the investigation include: NHS ... expectations about whether they will receive funding and does not make best use of assessment staff. In most cases ...
UK Social Security System Is “Consciously Cruel” and “Ruining Lives” Finds Amnesty UK
28 April 2025 | News
... across our basic rights to housing, food, education, healthcare and social security. The evidence delivers damning conclusions on how the system processes, punishes, harms and dehumanises ... Disabled people vulnerable to debt, food insecurity and mental health challenges. The financial hardship that ...
People with longstanding mental health problems more than twice as likely to be in poverty
20 June 2018 | News
Poor health, living standards and poverty 2018 : Institute for ... with a longstanding health problem, and 40% of those with a mental health problem, are in relative poverty (i.e. they ... of which 18% (1.3 million) reported having a longstanding mental health problem. The number with a longstanding mental ...
MPs say thousands of ESA claimants failed by DWP 'culture of indifference'
17 July 2018 | News
... to the report, Ken Butler, welfare rights adviser with Disability Rights UK, said: “This tawdry fiasco has seen ... Payment to Universal Credit, the litany of chaos doesn’t seem to register with the Department at all.” ... the harm caused by this mistake and, more broadly, to give much greater priority to correcting benefit underpayments to ...
Government to extend personal health budgets to 200,000 by 2024
24 February 2019 | News
... users and people who access aftercare services under the Mental Health Act will soon have a right to a personal health ... to obtain a wheelchair from the NHS. “We all know how variable wheelchair services have been in the past and ...