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Compulsory meetings with health care professionals
08 July 2013 | News
Government announces two year pilot requiring people on sickness benefits to have regular meetings with doctors, occupational health nurses and therapists to help them address their barriers to work ... readiness for work by taking steps to manage their health issues. The three schemes are: health care professional-led ...
The challenges of personal health budgets
27 August 2013 | News
... evaluation report published today by the Nuffield Trust examines how personal health budgets will work in practice and the issues they raise for both commissioners and policy makers. ...
Green Paper: Accessible Formats Published And Public Consultation Meeting Dates
08 April 2025 | News
The Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper ... of the Pathways to Work Green Paper are now available and can be accessed online here . In addition, if you need ...
Disabled people ‘forgotten by Government’ as ‘perfect storm’ puts vital services on the brink
01 June 2020 | News
... disability charities have criticised the Government for failing to represent the interests of disabled people. ... disabled people are being “forgotten by the Government” and “allowed to fall through the cracks”. Vital services ... to specifically support disabled people through the pandemic and beyond, with many services suspended and facing ...
DR UK responds to the shelving of the Bill of Rights
07 September 2022 | News
... CEO of Disability Rights UK, said: One of the new Prime Minister's first actions this week was to shelve the British ... would have seen the withdrawal of the Human Rights Act 1998 and replaced it with dangerously fewer human rights ... Human Rights Act, and instead prioritise the many urgent issues currently facing Disabled people in this country. DR ...
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 ...