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No more avoidable deaths: hospitals must be safe places for disabled people
12 September 2018 | News
Today, on world sepsis day, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has published a case about an ... death from sepsis both demonstrate that the NHS needs to go much further in ensuring that staff have received disability equality and awareness training and that they ...
Personal Health Budgets: Treat or treatment?
31 August 2015 | News
In response to press reports concerning the use of Personal Health Budgets, Disability Rights UK calls for greater investment in support ... people living with impairments or health conditions, have shown how this can be done – by pioneering personalised ...
DRUK responds to supported housing consultation
23 January 2018 | News
... 42% had a physical disability, and 5% had a significant mental health problem). This means that any change to the current ... rights, entitlement and choice to a discretionary system. However, the latest consultation instead proposes a very ...
Those who ‘fail to attend’ telephone work capability assessments may now have their ESA stopped or UC entitlement changed
04 November 2020 | News
... fails to attend an ESA or Universal Credit telephone health assessment without “good reason”. In its 6 ... provided and accepted, support will continue.” If someone does not attend or participate fully in their work ... not having a limited capability for work unless they can show “good cause” for not attending or in the case of ...
Planning for the Better Care Fund
25 February 2015 | News
... for the Fund was deeply flawed. NHS England/Department of Health assumed the Fund would secure £1 billion in ... and save £532 million in 2015–16 but the Committee does not believe it is possible to reduce emergency ... and delayed discharges is significant. It is not yet clear how all local authorities will protect adult social care ...
Ministerial contempt for the UNCRPD?
25 October 2015 | News
... has caught the attention of rights campaigners, including Disability Rights UK, concerning the UN Convention on the ... law and to protect the integrity of public life". So far much of the criticism of this change has focused on the ... the government's claim that the amendment to the code does not reflect a substantive change. Rights Watch ...
Government abandons commitment to halve disability employment gap?
11 May 2016 | News
The Government was elected on a manifesto commitment "disability employment gap" – the difference in employment ... will publish a White Paper focusing on the roles that the health, care and welfare sectors can play in supporting ... this summer. It is bad enough that the government spends so much of its time and resources on finding ways to deny us ...
Disabled employees are an asset, not a cost' - DRUK CEO
27 November 2019 | News
... people will be an expensive burden – they see the disability rather than the ability. For employees, the fear ... practice firm Diversity Q. “There’s a lot of data that shows that employing a disabled person doesn’t cost more. There are government support schemes ...
DR UK: Government must re-introduce Covid protections for Disabled people
13 December 2021 | News
Disability Rights UK is calling on the Health Secretary ... DR UK CEO Kamran Mallick said: “We cannot stress enough how abandoned clinically vulnerable people feel and the ...
National Campaign Launched Aiming For Step Change In Disability Justice
12 September 2024 | News
... unable to afford to eat or heat their home. Social security doesn’t cover the hidden or additional costs of disability – things like electricity to run vital ... heat their homes and power essential equipment needed for health and mobility. It will drive an increase in ...