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Align social security with health and care systems and fully fund advice provision: open letter to Government
23 November 2020 | News
An alliance of organisations working across social care, mental health, disability, homelessness, and welfare rights has sent an open letter to the Government ... with promoting health and wellbeing through prevention and early intervention. We are clear that the impact of COVID-19 ...
10 Years of PIP Is No Cause For Celebration: New MS Society Report
02 November 2023 | News
... PIP system has meant a decade of stress, indignity and humiliation for people with MS.” The report details ... their hidden symptoms The MS Society detail that there are problems at every stage of the PIP process: “The ... how their MS impacts them.”As a result, the report says, issues like these mean many people with MS miss out on the ...
General Election 2019: DRUK guide to policy and comment
28 November 2019 | News
This page will continue to be updated with policy areas and comment up to the General Election on 12 December 2019. ... proposals not directly about disabled people or disability issues. We will discuss the potential good and bad aspects ... ended. Details on benefit reform are non-existent, the problems with Universal Credit are not mentioned, ...
We welcome Integrated Personal Commissioning plans
09 July 2014 | News
Yesterday (9 July 2014) NHS England Chief Simon Stevens set out plans for a new Integrated Personal Commissioning (IPC) programme at the ... and people with severe and enduring mental health problems. In an earlier Guardian interview , on 8 July, ...
Social welfare advice good business model
21 July 2014 | News
... Looking at all work to date on Cost Benefits Analysis (CBA) and Social Return on Investment data, the report finds that ... of unmanageable debt and prevent the onset of mental health problems. the cost of unresolved social welfare issues are estimated to be £1billion per year for young ...
Disabled People feel they are being treated unfairly by the NHS
29 July 2020 | News
Disability Rights UK surveyed 195 people in late June and early July on their experience accessing medical ... result of the pandemic. Respondents reported the following issues because of delays to treatment. Respondents often had ... 106 Pain 104 Mental distress 83 Lack of mobility 79 Problems seeing or hearing 18 Less than a 3 rd of ...
WCA linked to more suicides, mental ill health, and antidepressant use
16 November 2015 | News
The introduction of the Work Capability Assessment in England ... with an increase in suicides, self-reported mental health problems and antidepressant prescribing. This policy may ...
NAO report criticises DWP PIP planning
26 February 2014 | News
... the operational performance of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) as it introduced Personal Independence ... Payment (PIP). The report seeks to highlight early issues which could affect the full roll out of PIP. Key ... did not leave enough time to assess potentially foreseeable problems with its own and providers’ performance before ...
Strategic partner updates November 2015 part 2
19 November 2015 | News
Health and Social Care update from our work as Strategic Partner ... up a user-led consortium as one of 22 strategic partners in the voluntary sector. Our name is ‘Win-Win Alliance – ... Five issues to be discussed at NHS Citizens' Assembly – 25 ... different cancer sites and is a vital tool to help improve early diagnosis. See more here: ...
Inequalities of a generation of disabled children, young people and their families’ needs overlooked!
07 September 2016 | News
Include Me TOO organised a Roundtable event at the House of Lords as a generation of Black, Asian, Ethnic Minority and marginalised communities disabled children, young people ... level around the discussion tables to represent the issues which matter to BAME disabled children and families. ...