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The cost-of-living crisis impacts access to prescription medicines says RPS
14 February 2023 | News
... cited that prescription charges for those with long-term health conditions and financially vulnerable people should ... and Lung found. There were also warnings from other health charities about the impact of the cost of living ... or stopping treatments or therapies, greatly putting their health at risk. Macmillan Cancer Support found that around 2 ...
DWP Recompensating Those Wrongly Advised to Claim Income Support
26 July 2023 | News
... on or after 31 January 2011 because of a disability or health condition instead of employment and support allowance ... on or after 31 January 2011 because of a disability or health condition you were not getting Incapacity Benefit or ... Capability Assessment to find out how your disability or health condition affects how much you can work. You will ...
COVID Inquiry Hears About Government Disregard of Disabled People
10 October 2023 | News
... greater susceptibility of Disabled people with long term health conditions to respiratory disease; the greater ... The professors told the Inquiry that social care and health services had been cut prior to the pandemic and that ... Bill relating to social care, education and mental health protections, be withdrawn. Throughout the height of ...
Increase Benefits And Scrap WCA Proposals - DR UK Writes To Chancellor Ahead Of His Autumn Statement
17 November 2023 | News
... safety net for Disabled people and those with long-term health conditions, but also that the level of support should ... into poverty, more deaths and greater deterioration in health. The proposal to remove the WCA’ s “substantial risk to physical or mental health” provision is deeply concerning and potentially ...
“Barbaric and inhumane” care is “generating trauma” for Disabled children
27 April 2021 | News
The Health and Social Care Committee has heard of the horrifying ... should be restrained or secluded in the 21st century for health-related reasons." In the same week, the Local ... risk and complex behaviour. Chair of the Committee, former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the UK needed "radical ...
Half of people with a learning disability and autistic people reluctant to provide feedback on care
18 March 2021 | News
... disability and autistic people are more likely to accept health and social care providers offering a lower standard ... had noticed a lower standard of safety when accessing health and social care during the COVID-19 pandemic– more ... they care for, on the CQC website or through their local Healthwatch. Local Healthwatch organisations can also help ...
Leadership Academy April 2015 update
31 March 2015 | News
... with lived experience of disability and/or a long term health condition. We are able to confirm that Baroness Jane ... Talent Management for staff with disabilities or long-term health conditions”. We are particularly inspired by ... employees with lived experience of disability and long term health conditions, to really commit to their career ...
School absenteeism seen as a ‘national crisis’
22 February 2023 | News
... have SEND and are highly anxious, and many have mental health distress which is a disability.A Special Needs Jungle ... around 40% of the children had autism, and many had other health issues. 90% of the children had SEND or a health problem, and almost all were very anxious. Around 60% ...
DR UK’s Template Submission To The PIP Green Paper Consultation
09 July 2024 | News
... The Modernising support for independent living: the health and disability Green Paper is available from gov.uk. ...
Disability Confident Britain? DWP progress report
09 December 2014 | News
... 1 year after we set out our plans in the disability and health employment strategy: the discussion so far. The ... Employment says: “Last December, in the ‘Disability and Health Employment Strategy’, I set out my ambition to ... there is an overall budget of £350m for disability and health employment support, including around £120m for Work ...