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Report reveals families raising disabled children are struggling to survive
14 October 2022 | News
... more isolated than ever, with worsening mental and physical health. T hese are families on the lowest of incomes, due ... whose parents are now putting their own mental and physical health in real jeopardy. If the health of the carers declines who is going to pick up the ...
DR UK: Government must re-introduce Covid protections for Disabled people
13 December 2021 | News
Disability Rights UK is calling on the Health Secretary Sajid Javid to reintroduce protection for ... due to the devastating consequences the jab has on their health. “We are asking the Secretary of State to urgently ... clinically vulnerable, that signposts and links people to health and community support. DR UK: Government must ...
PPE telephone survey with personal assistant employers
12 July 2020 | News
... Group which has been working with the Department of Health and Social Care’s PPE future demand strategy team ... pandemic. This team has been speaking with all areas of the health and social care sector and as part of this work, DHSC ... organisation to undertake a survey. The Department of Health and Social Care’s (DHSC) PPE Demand and Strategy ...
Urgent need to address social care underfunding to relieve A& E pressure, say MPs
06 November 2016 | News
... care to relieve pressure on A&E departments, says the Health Committee in its report on winter planning in A&E ... performance of the urgent and emergency care system.” The Health Committee’s report Winter Pressure in Accident and ...
DR UK and Work Foundation peer support event
02 February 2016 | News
... the value of peer support for people living with long-term health conditions or disability, and particularly mental health conditions. Such support is associated with a number of health and social outcomes – including reduced hospital ...
HCPC to investigate bogus DWP psychometric tests
19 June 2013 | News
The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), is investigating ... and skills of people living with disability or long-term health conditions and support them into work. For more information see the Guardian article Health watchdog investigates 'sham' psychometric tests for ...
Locked Down and Abandoned: Disabled People’s Experiences of Covid-19: new Inclusion London research report
11 February 2021 | News
... difficulties, workplace discrimination, problems accessing healthcare, and unequal access to medicine, vaccines, and ... is needed in preventative, community and acute mental health services to address the increased level of mental ... people in their homes. Improve Disabled people's access to healthcare services by resuming face-to-face appointments as ...
Women and Equalities Select Committee: pandemic has had “profoundly adverse effects” on disabled people’s access to services
21 December 2020 | News
... access to food, and potentially discriminatory practices in health and social care services. Existing systemic problems ... food parcel model” with an ongoing assessment of need. Health and social care Potentially discriminatory critical ... Practice on the Public Sector Equality Duty. Pre existing health inequalities and poor outcomes for people with ...
Disabled people’s led organisations challenge government record
23 July 2020 | News
... Disabled people have experienced challenges in accessing health and social care, problems in buying food, digital exclusion and deterioration of mental health. The letter calls on government to put disabled ... people in the UK who live with a disability or long-term health conditions. At the beginning of the crisis in March, ...
Eleven new disability research projects receive £1 million as DRILL calls for new bids
15 May 2017 | News
... are led by disabled people or people with long term health conditions, working in co-production with academics ... across disability and experience. Sheffield Occupational Health Advisory Service - Exploring employer perceptions on ... of Coventry - Defining quality and rights-based Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) for disabled young people ...