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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 ...
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, ...
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. ...
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. ...
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 ...