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Back Up's Survey - Your Experience of Getting and Owning a Wheelchair
04 January 2017 | News
Back up are currently carrying out research into the needs and experiences of ... users. Back Up are members of Disability Rights UK and inspire people affected by spinal cord injury to get the ...
Blueprint for post-pandemic NHS and social care reform launched
10 February 2021 | News
The Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock has set out new proposals to bring health and care services closer together. The measures, set out in ...
How to fix the funding of health and social care
20 June 2018 | News
Following the Prime Minister’s promise of more cash for the NHS, ... a parliamentary inquiry into how to raise this money now and into the future. View report The proposed extra money ... annual increase over the next five years – is significant and will help stem a further decline in standards. But this ...
MPs look at Spending Review on health and social care
18 July 2016 | News
Health Committee report: Impact of the Spending Review on health and social care. Read the report Chair's comments on NHS ... to keep people healthy, reduce the gap in life expectancy and years lived in poor health for the most disadvantaged, ...
IDS on benefit deaths, PIP, food banks and tax credits
27 October 2015 | News
Work and Pensions Committee takes evidence from the Secretary of State This is the Work and Pensions Committee’s first oral evidence session of ... State View summary on Guardian website Witnesses Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP , Secretary of State for Work and ...
Our Access to Work factsheet has been revised and updated
06 March 2018 | News
... to Work (AtW) is a government programme aimed at supporting disabled people to take up or remain in work. Access to ... the scheme, how to claim, where to get more information and what to do if you are not happy with your decision. ... any feedback Our Access to Work factsheet has been revised and updated ...
Funding pressure on NHS and social care set to grow
23 May 2018 | News
Securing the future: funding health and social care to the 2030s. ... 15 years just to maintain NHS provision at current levels, and by at least 4% a year if services are to be improved. ...
Benefit Sanctions More Likely For Black and Minority Ethnic Claimants
17 September 2024 | News
... to meet the ‘ work-related conditions ’ that apply in your case. These failures are called ‘sanctionable ... are four different types of sanction: lowest, low, medium and higher. In each case, benefits can be reduced over ... to extreme hardship, including food bank use , poor mental and physical health and financial debt. Black and minority ...
PIP and ESA appeal success rate now 75 per cent
15 September 2019 | News
The success rate for PIP and ESA appeals has now reached 75%, according to new Ministry of Justice (MoJ) statistics. The new MoJ ... disability living allowance appeals had a 67% success rate; and universal credit appeals a 65% success rate. For more ...
New Secretary of State for Health and Social Care appointed
09 July 2018 | News
... Matt Hancock MP is the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. Read biography The Secretary of State is responsible for the work of the Department of Health and Social Care, including: overall financial control and oversight of NHS ...