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Disabled peoples problems accessing primary care
12 March 2015 | News
A new Healthwatch England report says disabled people face major ... Liz Sayce said ‘We expect our health services to offer very good access to disabled ... it than the NHS, which exists to serve people living with health conditions or disability. Primary care services that ...
DPOs demand DHSC use the social model lens within its major condition strategy
27 June 2023 | News
... call for evidence . This is where the Department of Health and Social Care sought views and ideas on how to ... prevent, diagnose, treat and manage the 6 major groups of health conditions that most affect the population in ... We all have a right to get active however we want, and the health and social care systems should approach physical ...
Special Educational Needs and Disability (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020
30 April 2020 | News
... 2014. This notice will be relevant to: local authorities health commissioning bodies children and young people ... authorities to secure special educational provision and on health commissioning bodies to arrange health provision in accordance with EHC plans, so that ...
BPS signs consensus statement calling for removal of benefit sanctions
25 March 2019 | News
... Psychological Society has joined eight other leading mental health organisations in calling for the removal of benefit sanctions for people with mental health difficulties. The call is made in a consensus ... dignity and humanity, contributing to and worsening mental health conditions. It calls for everyone living with a ...
Carers facing unprecedented pressure on their finances
14 November 2022 | News
... having a negative impact on their mental and/or physical health. Other findings include that: Two thirds of those ... is having a negative impact on their physical or mental health 41% of carers haven’t taken a break from their ... financial hardship this winter. “Issues around accessing healthcare appointments and social care services means that ...
MPs hold WCA evidence session
10 June 2014 | News
... CBE, Benefits Director James Bolton, Deputy Director, Health and Wellbeing Directorate Iain Walsh, Deputy ... The witnesses were: Lisa Coleman, Senior Vice President, Health Market, Atos Dr Angela Graham, Clinical Director, Atos Healthcare Helen Hall, Head of Communications and Customer ...
NHS offer greater choice of care and more control for wheelchair users over their provision
17 May 2016 | News
... today sets out action to help people manage their own health by giving them more choice and control about the ... key schemes have been announced at the NHS England Personal Health Budget conference: Personal Health Budgets will replace the current wheelchair voucher ...
Blueprint for fundamental welfare reform for ‘getting people back into work’
24 July 2024 | News
... 2.8 million people are out of work due to disability or ill health Spending on sickness and disability benefits is set ... get more people into work, and on in their work. New work, health and skills plans for the economically inactive, led ... England , and” cutting NHS waiting lists to build the healthy society needed for a healthy economy” . The new ...
Disability progress ‘littered with missed opportunities and failures’
02 April 2017 | News
... education and employment; barriers to access to transport, health services and housing; the persistent and widening ... across all impairment types, and for those with ‘mental health conditions’ and those with ‘physical ... were also less likely to own their own home. Accessing healthcare services is problematic for disabled people, and ...
DBC and DPAC urge six week extension to Green Paper consultation response time
09 August 2021 | News
... about the consultation period for the recently published Health and Disability Green Paper. The Green Paper was ... The DBC and DPAC letter says: “Dear Mr Tomlinson RE: Health and Disability Green Paper consultation We are ... Against Cuts (DPAC), regarding the publication of the Health and Disability Green Paper and its short consultation ...