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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. ...
Government put Disabled people at risk in COVID vaccination process
20 January 2025 | News
The Covid Public Inquiry has heard that Disabled people were put at risk by failures to consider our needs during the planning and roll out of the vaccination process. Appearing on behalf ... discrimination against Disabled People in the vaccine and therapeutics rollout, citing “patterns of repeated ...
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 ...
The number of new PIP claimants has doubled in a year
06 December 2022 | News
A new report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) highlights that the ... Independence Payment (PIP) doubled between July 2021 and July 2022. In summer 2021, each month 15,000 or so ... The increase in claimants is seen across medical conditions and ages, with the fastest rise among teenagers, where claim ...
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 ...
National Campaign Launched Aiming For Step Change In Disability Justice
12 September 2024 | News
We all want a decent quality of life for ourselves and those we care about. Yet two million Disabled people are trapped in deep poverty, unable to afford to eat or heat their home. ... million) live in a household with a D isabled person. Nearly half of the poverty in the UK is therefore directly ...
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 ...