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Tackling Obesity Strategy – accessible to all?
26 July 2020 | News
... in a bid to beat coronavirus and protect our National Health Service. The "Better Health" campaign by Public Health England, which is launched alongside the strategy, ...
New Citizens Advice analysis on disability and work
02 August 2016 | News
Employers and government must do more to close health and disability employment gap Read Citizens Advice press release Disabled people or those with a health condition are more than twice as likely to fall out ... compared with people who are not disabled or do not have health problems, reveals new analysis from Citizens Advice. ...
Think tank attacks free prescriptions
18 November 2013 | News
... could have a disastrous impact on their quality of life and health outcomes, potentially resulting in significant ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24985242 ...
Government abandons plans to extend SSP to all low paid workers
03 August 2021 | News
... in 2021-22 is £96.35 a week for up to 28 weeks. In its Health is everyone’s business consultation , published in ... .” Now In its recently published response to the Health is everyone's business consultation, the Government ... reasons not to; and plans to improve access to occupational health to encourage more adjustments to be made for disabled ...
New report shows the ‘Humanitarian crises’ of fuel poverty
01 September 2022 | News
A new report published today by the Institute of Health Equity titled: "Fuel Poverty, Cold Homes, and Health Inequalities" has predicted serious health, social and educational issues for families and ...
Ministers say thank you for all responses to the Improving Lives green paper
22 March 2017 | News
Penny Mordaunt MP, Minister for Disabled People, Health & Work and Nicola Blackwood MP, Minister for Public Health and Innovation ‘delighted’ at the high level of ... UK made 25 recommendations in our submission to the DWP, Health and Disability Green Paper “Improving Lives” ...
Stephen Crabb’s speech at the Early Intervention Foundation Conference
12 April 2016 | News
... Key points “We’re going to be investing in mental health services to tackle some of the debilitating disorders ... moving into work for many decades. So I want to challenge health and care professionals, employers and wider society ... with disabled people, with their representatives, healthcare professionals and employers. We need to recognise ...
Disability Rights UK's response to WCA Consultation
10 November 2023 | News
... we will see more deaths and greater deterioration in health. The proposals are ideological and will lead to ... of people who are economically inactive because of ill health and the desire to control welfare spending. We ... towards Disabled people unable to work because of ill health. These changes rushed through despite the proposal ...
Strategic partner updates for September 2014
02 September 2014 | News
Health and Social Care update from our work as Strategic Partner (SP) to the Department of Health, NHS England and Public Health England. Disability Rights UK leads a user-led ...
More than six in ten referred to a food bank are Disabled people
12 May 2021 | News
... referred to a food bank in early 2020 had someone with ill-health or disability, four times the rate in the general ... general working age population (19%). People reporting poor health were six times more likely to be food insecure than people reporting ‘excellent’ health. The Trussell Trust says that “this raises ...