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Patients to benefit from £325 million investment in NHS transformation projects
27 July 2017 | News
NHS E announced £325m of capital investment for local projects that will help the NHS to modernise and transform care for patients. Speaking at the King’s Fund , Mr Hunt and Mr Stevens gave the green light to local capital ...
134% increase in deaths of people with learning disabilities during pandemic
02 June 2020 | News
134% more disabled people with learning disabilities have died during the Coronavirus crisis ... by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Between 10 April and 15 May there were 386 deaths, with only half of them ... looked at deaths of people with a learning disability and/or autism where it was told by care providers, and also ...
Young people wanted to get actively involved in DR UK research
14 June 2018 | News
Young peoples attitudes towards disability and disabled people. Disability Rights UK is looking for disabled young people aged 12-18 to become members ... a research project looking at attitudes towards disability and disabled people amongst their peers. Members will have ...
DWP launches case trawl review exercise to identify PIP claimants owed benefit arrears following landmark legal judgment on the need for support when ‘Engaging with other people face to face’
24 September 2020 | News
... to identify claimants now owed benefit arrears following a recent Supreme Court judgment. This DWP review will result in potentially thousands more disabled people getting PIP or receiving it at a ... who are experienced in providing them with support Two issues in respect of daily living activity 9 were in dispute ...
Safeguarding adults review slams ‘confused’ enquiry into learning-disabled men’s injuries
22 April 2018 | News
A botched safeguarding enquiry into similar injuries sustained by two learning-disabled men made it impossible to clearly establish their causes, a scathing report has found. ... responses to broken legs suffered by Matthew Bates and Gary Lewis within a 24-hour period at the same care ...
Two new blogs on the experiences of disabled people in institutions
01 December 2015 | News
... blogs today look back at the experiences of disabled people in institutions. Institutions have long been a feature of the ‘care’ of disabled people, and it is only in very recent times that they have been come ... two pieces tell very different stories, but they show clearly why we at Disability Rights UK believe that ...
England’s Disabled People’s Organisations Demand Next Government Takes Radical Action to End Injustice Towards Disabled People
22 September 2023 | News
Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs) from across England are gathering in Manchester on 22nd September to demand that the next government takes fundamental and radical ...
Work Capability Assessment
23 April 2025 | Resource
Revised and updated: 22nd April 2025 Contents What is the work ... assessment take place? Universal credit Employment and support allowance Cases where only one assessment is ... worse How is the work capability assessment applied? Completing the 'capability for work' questionnaire The assessment ...
DR UK questions the need for the new Health and Work Conversation to be mandatory
16 July 2017 | News
DWP FOI responses give fuller picture of mandatory Health and Work Conversation. Following Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, the DWP has ...
£20 week UC uplift must be kept and extended says APPG of MPs on poverty
31 January 2021 | News
... Credit (UC) top up, worth £1,050 a year, to be retained and extended beyond April 2021 and for the benefit cap to be suspended. THE APPG says that ...