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Write to your MP - ask them to sign the EDM on disability benefits assessments
06 April 2022 | News
... commitment to working with disabled people, people with health conditions, and Deaf and Disabled people’s ...
Visits to care homes allowed under new guidance
03 December 2020 | News
... The changes apply to care home residents in all tiers. Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: “The ... with significant impacts on care home residents’ mental health, as well as the deteriorating impacts on those with ...
Suspension of PIP and ESA face-to-face assessments continues but kept under review
06 July 2020 | News
... in place following a consideration of the latest public health guidance”. However, some DLA and PIP review and ... see Face-to-face assessment suspension continues for health and disability benefits . Suspension of PIP and ESA ...
Improving Lives: Transforming Disability Employment
27 February 2018 | News
... people are employed. Improving Lives: The Future of Work, Health and Disability outlines the government’s aims to ... barriers for disabled people and people with long term health conditions over the next 10 years. This timely ... does it mean for disabled people? Update on the Work and Health Programme and its impact on disabled people Job ...
Wheels for Wellbeing’s Beyond the Bicycle Conference
10 October 2017 | News
... Commissioner Dr Justin Varney, National Lead for Adult Health & Wellbeing (Healthy People), Public Health England Rupert Furness, Head of Active and Accessible ...
Key PIP mobility judgment issued
12 July 2015 | News
... also applies a more severe test for anyone, with mental health conditions, whose DLA award is being transferred to ... you need to be accompanied on a journey because of a mental health condition, ask your appeal tribunal to follow the ... your DLA lower rate mobility component because your mental health needs have not been taken into account when planning ...
Two-fifths of older adults in psychiatric wards got COVID
14 October 2020 | News
... claims that 15% of infected patients in the mental health wards died from the illness. The increased mortality ... at data from all 344 hospital patients across five mental health trusts in London aged over 65 or with young onset ... on the wards were compulsorily detained under the Mental Health Act or Mental Capacity Act. DR UK Head of Policy ...
Over 1.5 million people were destitute in the UK in 2017
06 June 2018 | News
... Destitution in the UK 2018 report says serious physical health and mental health problems were reported by almost half of all ... authorities and utility companies pressures caused by poor health or disability high costs for housing and other ...
Covid, disability and racism commission launched
08 August 2022 | News
... people and organisations and scrutinise the Department of Health and Social Care’s policies and responses to the ... is urging Disabled people and people with long-term health conditions from Black, Asian and ethnic minority ... pointers to transformative and sustainable solutions in health and social care that are rooted in justice and human ...
Sign up for the free School for Change Agents
24 January 2017 | News
... NHS Horizons; we have been running the virtual School for Health and Care Radicals for the past three years. We have ... for the school, making it truly focused on the needs of health and care staff and patient leaders and the ... free, and open to anyone (you don’t have to work in health and social care). For more information and to enrol: ...