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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Suspension of the Care Act - act immediately
21 March 2020 | News
... address] I mplications of the Bill for Disabled people What does it mean for disabled adults? The Bill suspends every ... a lesser entitlement for up to two years. What about the Mental Health Act? The power to recommend individuals be ... from 24 hours to 36 hours. Under section 35/36, the cap on how long someone can be held in hospital while awaiting a ...
Cost of living situation for UC households ‘almost universally dire’ says Joseph Rowntree Federation
23 June 2023 | News
... normal” with claimants making impossible choices about how often they eat and which foods they buy, according to ... need for an Essentials Guarantee to protect the nation’s health. As a result, the JRF says, the situation has been ... local market rents. Ensure that the Renters Reform Bill does not allow landlords to raise rents within tenancies to ...
£400,000 for 10 new research projects led by disabled people announced
29 November 2016 | News
... have received between £35,000 and £40,000 each to explore how disabled people can live as full citizens in our society ... people living with dementia, learning disabilities and mental health issues. Grants were approved by the DRILL ... Coproducing Solutions £40,000 People First Scotland Does it Matter? Decision making by people with learning ...