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DR UK opposes "dangerous" RSHE draft guidance
17 July 2024 | News
... to the Department for Education's Relationships, Sex, Health Education (RSHE) Guidance consultation - opposing ... "seek views on changes to the relationships, sex and health education statutory guidance." Some of the changes ... Government, our response comes after the new Minister for Health extended the previous Government's ban on puberty ...
Long Covid and illness drives 400,000 more people from the workforce
04 May 2022 | News
... for Public Policy Research (IPPR) report warns that deep health inequalities and ineffective policies mean people are living shorter lives, with more years spent in poor health, and facing greater barriers to staying in, and ... and about 400,000 of these are no longer working because of health factors, such as long Covid, disruption to healthcare ...
Blueprint for post-pandemic NHS and social care reform launched
10 February 2021 | News
The Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock has set out new proposals to bring health and care services closer together. The measures, set ... focus more on patient care than procurement processes. The Healthcare Safety Investigations Branch will be put ...
Our Commissioning a People Powered NHS response
21 May 2013 | News
... draft for guidance on the involvement duties set out in the Health and Social Care Act 2012. See previous response which ... do not and cannot operate any longer in isolation. Better health outcomes and productivity gains (eg through reduction ... professionals”. In fact, the introduction of personal health budgets into the NHS can scale up such healthy ...
Government gives more information about ESA retesting
10 October 2016 | News
... to no longer reassess those “who have the most severe health conditions and disabilities” will not apply to ... are no plans to stop reassessing PIP claimants with severe health conditions and disabilities Damian Green’s ... Allowance (ESA) and/or Universal Credit (UC) due to a health condition or disability they are required to take ...
The number of new PIP claimants has doubled in a year
06 December 2022 | News
... This sudden increase seems to be driven by a worsening of health across the population – something for which there ... the same in terms of its “strictness”, and the ill health of applicants remaining at similar severity, with the ... spike in new PIP awards simply driven by more people in ill health and making claims. Consistent with that ...
Strategic partner updates December 2015
30 November 2015 | 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 heads up a user-led ...
Say No To Assisted Dying - Fazilet Hadi
10 April 2025 | News
... Devaluing of Our Lives So often, our impairments or health conditions are viewed as a deficit or burden by ... people, the UK population as a whole experiences profound health inequalities, with life expectancy and healthy life years being much worse for working-class people ...
Obesity is not just a question of diet: What about getting active?
01 May 2018 | News
... fails to mention the role of physical activity and mental health. Speaking in the Guardian , she says: “Last ... list: the role of physical activity, and improving mental health and wellbeing – a decision I find deeply ... strategy.” Disability Rights UK also seeks to improve the health and well-being of disabled people through physical ...
Universal Credit linked to suicide risk finds new research
15 November 2018 | News
Universal Credit has become a serious threat to public health, with the stress of coping with the new benefit affecting mental health and leading some to consider suicide, according to ... and extreme hardship, with serious consequences for their health and wellbeing. It shows that people moving onto ...