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Manifesto for Better Mental Health
27 August 2014 | News
England’s leading mental health organisations have joined forces to ... must do to improve the lives of people with mental health problems. A Manifesto for Better Mental Health has been ... national strategy to stop people with mental illness dying early, due to preventable physical health problems. Improve ...
Lack of street access prevents independent living, finds new DR UK survey
02 March 2022 | News
... 84% of Disabled respondents feel that there are serious issues with street accessibility in their local area, worsened by the pandemic. These issues have had a severe impact on their ... with street accessibility. Disabled people reported that problems stemmed from the inadequate condition of pavements ...
Leading organisations write to the Prime Minister outlining the growing evidence that social care is in crisis
17 November 2015 | News
Dear Prime Minister, Our organisations all submitted representations to ... urgency of the need to address this underfunding is clear and mounting. The impact on the NHS is also significant, as ... placing adult social care under pressure and creating issues around the sustainability of provision. A new report ...
NPC in partnership with DR UK set out election climate change recommendations
10 June 2024 | News
In the lead up to the 2024 General Election on 4 July, ... now, working with New Philanthropy Capital on the Disabled and older people strands of the Everyones Environment programme. This Programme ...
Our response to the Litchfield review
12 December 2013 | News
... or no recognition by Dr. Litchfield of the widespread anger and criticism of the poor standard of medical assessments ... Decision Makers triage cases; 1 DWP, rather than the HAP, issues the ESA50 and reviews the response with any ... experience of dealing with people with mental health problems so that they can contextualise their findings at ...
A quiet August for I Can Make It so expect a lot from us in September
31 August 2017 | News
Not many updates from us in August. However, we’ve been working on a lot of ... based in Milan that hires people with disabilities and receives sub contracted work from other Italian ... such as long-term worklessness, disability, mental health issues, being ex-offenders or ex-service personnel, and ...
Service user involvement and payments: how they affect benefits
07 December 2022 | Resource
... carer or service user of health or social care services and if you are getting actively involved in helping to develop or improve these ... sources of advice and information on payment related issues? BACK TO START Acknowledgement and further ...
Standard of ESA and PIP assessments unacceptable says Public Accounts Committee
30 March 2016 | News
Standard of ESA and PIP assessments unacceptable says Public ... knowledgeable assessors who are sensitive to the complex issues that claimants are dealing with". The Committee also ... being successful is simply not fit for purpose. The same problems beset the assessment for Personal Independence ...
Minister admits confusion caused by integrated PIP and ESA assessment announcement
25 April 2019 | News
The Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work Justin ... the final appeal process, but if it is something that is clearly going to change the decision, we should act as quickly ...
Decisions not to award PIP indefinitely or for a longer period can be appealed
08 March 2016 | News
... be made an indefinite award of PIP as their daily living and/or mobility problems are unlikely to diminish. It can also be used by ... to make an indefinite award; and if the Secretary of State issues guidance about deciding whether a fixed term award ...