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DR UK launches new Assisted Dying policy page
08 May 2025 | News
... than it would be to access social care support, palliative healthcare, and suitable housing. Disabled people must be ...
Celebrating Trustees Week
08 November 2023 | News
... At this point, I was introduced to working within health and social care. I worked with five men who had been ... and to look at how the resources available within our health and social care system could be shared to enhance ... person's voice could be upheld in the provision of their health and social care, placing an emphasis on the person ...
Disabled people make up nearly half of the most deprived working-age adults in the country
06 July 2022 | News
... Important new research examining the living standards and health of working-age disabled people and disability benefit ... people would be shocked to learn people living with serious health conditions are waiting on average five months for ...
Hundreds of thousands “will plunge into poverty” as Minister rejects UK-wide call to keep Universal Credit uplift
31 August 2021 | News
... work benefits, such as ESA are facing considerable mental health and physical challenges as the pandemic has left them ... welfare state to ensure Disabled people and those with health conditions aren’t pushed any further into poverty ...
Nearly one in three Disabled workers say they were treated unfairly at work during the pandemic
09 June 2021 | News
... they have not told their employer about their disability or health condition, with many of these workers fearing being ... their job (21%) if they were open about their disability or health condition. Employers failing disabled workers: only ...
DR UK urges Secretary of State to launch independent inquiry into benefit related claimant deaths
31 May 2021 | News
... activity such as termination of benefits and that mental health vulnerabilities were a contributing factor in 35 of ... “At DWP meetings we have attended to discuss the awaited Health and Disability Green Paper the Department has ...
DWP axes commitment to review 1.6 million PIP claims to see if extra benefit legally payable
12 February 2020 | News
... to the House of Commons, Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work Justin Tomlinson has announced that around ... supervision. We are committed to ensuring everyone with a health condition or disability gets the support they are ...
Nearly half of everyone in poverty is either a disabled person or lives with a disabled person
06 February 2020 | News
... compared with 35% of non-disabled adults disability, ill-health and society’s response to these conditions often ... safety net for disabled people and people with long-term health conditions. Yet, since 2008, changes to welfare ...
A human catastrophe – New UN condemnation for UK human rights record
30 August 2017 | News
... serious concerns on issues such as the use of mental health legislation to deny people control over their ... seemingly endless rise in the numbers of people with mental health problems being detained or forcibly treated in the ...
Lords return ESA cut amendments back to Commons
28 February 2016 | News
... 13 and 14 which will examine the physical and mental health, financial situation, and ability to return to work, ...