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Strategic partner updates for October 2014
06 October 2014 | News
Health and Social Care update from our work as Strategic ... people leading change’ (lead on commissioning ), and on how this will support local user-led organisations and ... year for a CCG during which children and young people with mental health problems are driving a procurement exercise ...
Bereaved relatives call on DWP Secretary of State to launch public inquiry into benefits deaths
19 July 2021 | News
... ours are not part of a wider problem. But your own figures show that the DWP has internally investigated 97 deaths since ... it take to overhaul the way that the system works, when so much harm has been done over so many years? It is hard to ... the benefits system.” The letter has been sent as Rethink Mental Illness publishes a significant new report -Tip of ...
Benefits levels leave many unable to afford daily essentials or meet extra costs of disability, say MPs
21 March 2024 | News
... daily living costs and extra costs associated with having a health condition or disability. For example, a wide range of ... benefits were found to have a negative physical and mental health impact on claimants, which in turn could ... costs it intends PIP to cover. It should then set out how it intends to reach this benchmark alongside annual ...
We welcome Scotlands decision to ban private firms from doing disability benefit assessments
02 October 2017 | News
... Butler, DR UK’s Welfare Rights Adviser said: “We very much welcome all of Scotland’s disability benefit reforms. It shows that it has listened to the criticisms that disable ... to make better use of existing information within the health and social care sector and other public bodies.” In ...
DR UK CEO Kamran Mallick's New Year message
30 December 2022 | News
... would come into 2022 with a little more understanding about how we, as Disabled people, live our day-to-day lives. The ... encouraged that the Government has announced a new National Disability Plan for 2023, but as ever, the devil will be in ... unsupported, nor denied thriving lives. Kamran Mallick CEO, Disability Rights UK DR UK CEO Kamran Mallick's New Year ...
Our Interview with Paralympian Sophie Christiansen!
20 May 2025 | News
... DR UK: You've worked tirelessly to use your position to show that, despite how well known you might be and the ... being able to take part in this when you were young did so much for you, both as a young person and for your whole ... how important these experiences can be to us personally. It doesn't have to be winning a gold medal, though obviously ...
Women go undiagnosed, accused of ‘hysteria’ - CII report
17 June 2021 | News
... (CII). The data will be submitted to the Department for Health and Social Care for its Women’s Health Strategy ... what’s called ‘medical gaslighting’ and the damage it does, not just medically but on the whole of our lives, is ... healthcare costs by diverting patients who take up too much GP surgery time away from biomedical investigation and ...
PIP assessments first independent review: second government response
25 November 2015 | News
... primarily on the short–term recommendations and set out how the Department would respond to them, complementing work ... to the effectiveness of the assessment for people with a mental health condition or learning disability. The responses to ...
Thousands of Disabled people unfairly chased for social care debt
01 March 2023 | News
New reporting by the BBC has shown that more than 60,000 Disabled adults and those with ... expenses disabled people face in maintaining their health and well-being, such as accessible transport, adapted ... people chased for unjust debts for their care show how much things need to change. The government should create a ...
Covid 19 and the rights of disabled people
06 April 2020 | News
... decisions about who gets treatment and care and who doesn’t. We understand that they will have to judge ... that people’s existing health will be taken into account. However, we have read about cases that have made us feel ... of all ages, as set out in the Human Rights Act (1998), the Mental Capacity Act (2005), the Adults with Incapacity ...