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Exciting Funding Opportunity for Disabled People's Organisations (DPOs)!
25 July 2023 | News
... Opportunity for London Communities The NHS Legacy and Health Equity Partnership (LHEP) and the Greater London ... support community organisations. This initiative addresses health inequity and healthcare exclusion. The grants, ranging from £2,000 to ...
Govt response to WCA fourth review
26 March 2014 | News
... impact of earlier independent reviews; the way that mental health conditions are considered in the WCA; and the ... light of the EBR findings, in particular the feasibility of healthcare professionals using prompts from a ... DWP will also explore the scope to further review healthcare professional training and guidance on considering ...
Government proposes SSP extension to those earning less than lower earnings limit
15 July 2019 | News
... support and retain disabled staff and those with a health condition". Under the new measures the lowest paid ... a year then leaving employment altogether. Businesses and health providers will be asked for their views on how to ... to improve the capacity, value and quality of occupational health services and consider how to reduce the high costs, ...
DR UK opposes "dangerous" RSHE draft guidance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 ...
We welcome Integrated Personal Commissioning plans
09 July 2014 | News
... The programme is intended to extend the use of combined health and social care personal budgets. The four groups of ... disabilities, and people with severe and enduring mental health problems. In an earlier Guardian interview , on 8 ... five million patients could each have a personal combined health and social care budget by 2018. Liz Sayce, Chief ...
DR UK Handbook Editor on 'Completely Unfair' Government Bill Concessions
27 June 2025 | News
... that all existing claimants of the universal credit health-related support (and any new claimant meeting the new ... The freeze will now no longer apply. The hefty cut to health-related support, around 50%, will remain in place for ... has fully come into effect, so will the universal credit health-related support. It would be charitable to call what ...
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 ...