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New NHS discharge guidance risks patients' health
15 September 2020 | News
The NHS’s updated process for discharging patients from hospital raises significant concerns, ... risks patients being sent home before they are fully ready and without taking their views about their condition into ... considerable expectations on family members to deliver care and support. Patients’ Association Chief Executive Rachel ...
Win Win Alliance Disability as an Asset Seminar
03 April 2018 | News
Exploring the employment of disabled people in the NHS. Come and share your ideas and get answers to your questions 25th April 2018 – ...
MPs call for action on unacceptable level of UK financial exclusion
30 March 2017 | News
The Select Committee on Financial Exclusion calls on the Financial Conduct Authority and Banks to give greater priority to tackling financial ... than 1.7 million people in the UK without a bank account and 40% of the working age population with less than £100 ...
Letter to the Times on Housing Standards
30 October 2014 | News
The following letter was printed today (October 31) in the Times. Sir, ... to express our concern that the Government’s Housing Standards Review could reduce the number of new homes built that meet the needs of disabled and older people. Accessibly designed homes can support ...
Scandal of LA Social Fund replacement schemes
18 July 2013 | News
A new Children’s Society report finds that money given to local authorities to replace the Department for Work and Pension’s (DWP) Social Fund has almost been halved ... Provision has replaced parts of the Department for Work and Pensions Social Fund since April 2013. It is now the ...
Channel 4 unveils Tokyo Paralympics line up
08 July 2021 | News
Almost three quarters of the 2021 Paralympic presenting team identify as Disabled, Channel 4 has announced – ... as TV presenter Sophie Morgan, former Royal Marines commando and Strictly Come Dancing star JJ Chalmers, and former rugby ...
Public attitudes to poverty
28 September 2014 | News
... report looks at current public attitudes to poverty and how views have changed since the 2008 financial crash It examines public attitudes ... of poverty. If stable, well-paid employment were available and the cost of living lower, fewer people would need to ...
41.7 percent faced WCA every 6 months
05 February 2014 | News
A recent freedom of information request shows that a higher proportion of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) claimants are called back for ... years or "in the longer term. The reply showed the 'Number and proportion of people who have had an initial or repeat ...
Disabled people far more likely to die by suicide than non-disabled people
07 March 2023 | News
... likely to die by suicide than non-Disabled people according to the latest data released from the 2021 Census. For ... hardest hit by cuts in public services, reducing incomes and rising costs. We face inadequate health and social care services, punitive benefit processes, low ...
Join our website development user group
03 August 2021 | News
DR UK is developing a new website, launching in 2022. As part of ... website. You would be expected to take part in one to one and group interviews with Disability Rights UK staff and staff from our chosen company creating the website. ...