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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 ...
Disabled claimant died underweight, ‘unkempt and dirty’ after ESA and PIP wrongly stopped
31 October 2021 | News
A Disabled claimant died underweight, ‘unkempt and dirty’ after the DWP wrongly stopped both his ESA and ... ICE, the claimant had severe depression and physical health problems and was classed as vulnerable by the DWP. For a ... will have exacerbated the claimant’s mental health issues as well as causing considerable distress to their ...
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 ...
New Care and Support Alliance survey reveals shocking picture of neglect in care system
09 May 2018 | News
Unwell, unsafe, and unfed – 4,000 people needing care reveal a shocking picture of neglect in our care ... to give her the care she needed. She described common problems, such as “The carers hadn’t been feeding her ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...