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Three questions to ask your parliamentary candidates
17 May 2017 | News
... - that is all of us living with an impairment or long-term health condition. Let’s make our votes count! Below we ... people in the next Parliament? 3. Are you committed to a health and social care system that enables disabled people ... detention and forced treatment of people with mental health issues or learning disabilities? Will you work to ...
The true impact of welfare cuts
05 May 2015 | News
... not just the living standard of those who are currently on health related benefits but those who are members of their ... need benefits in the future as a result of sickness or ill health”, said Philip Connolly, Policy and Development ...
Met Police officer fired after assaulting black child with learning disabilities
05 May 2021 | News
A 17 year-old who was an inpatient at a mental health unit was repeatedly struck by a Metropolitan (Met) ... footage shows her telling its occupants she had mental health disabilities. She agreed to get into the car, but ... and particularly where the person involved has mental health issues, is of concern…PC Kemp's immediate reaction ...
APDA, DR UK and DPAC make stand against austerity
18 March 2019 | News
... borrow money that they are ill-equipped to repay. With many health, social care and public transport services devolved, ... detention/forced treatment powers contained in mental health legislation A shortfall in housing that meets the ...
NHS financial sustainability dependent on spending review says NAO
17 January 2019 | News
... showed that financial problems in the NHS were ongoing. Health Trusts continually needed extra money to keep the ... to know the level of settlement for other key areas of health spending in the Spending Review later in the year to ... of the Spending Review for the non-NHS England parts of the health service, and the funding for social care.” Amyas ...
DWP to decide PIP claims using unlawful and discriminatory rules until summer 2018
19 April 2018 | News
... as it affects an estimated 164,000 claimants with mental health conditions. Esther McVey has now announced that both ... were “blatantly discriminatory against those with mental health impairments. “And that the Government “wish to ... £1 billion a year at the expense of those with mental health impairments is not a reasonable foundation for ...
DR UK calls for new assessment approach for PIP as Atos and Capita get £40m increase
04 February 2018 | News
... out of 10 appeals are successful. Atos and Capita rely on healthcare professionals who are cheaper than doctors or ... for example, are wrongly assessing people with mental health conditions. The Government should be looking ... approximately 66 per cent of PIP recipients with mental health conditions receive the higher rate of the benefit, ...
Our response to the Blue Badge scheme consultation on eligibility
15 March 2018 | News
... and substantial” to “enduring and substantial” that healthcare professionals other than GPs undertake mobility ... will mean that those disabled people with a severe mental health condition who live in England will rightly achieve ... be independent be removed – this allows a range of healthcare professionals with specific expertise (other than ...
Debt charities urge Ofgem to protect people with energy debt
08 August 2022 | News
... energy use – putting at risk their physical and mental health. The charities’ findings show that: Energy arrears, ...
Inspiring Stephen Hawking speech at Jack Ashley memorial event
13 March 2018 | News
... He reiterated the criticism of the Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt MP, he and Professor Winston and ... the more private monopolies grow, and the more expensive health care becomes.’ The NHS is not only the most human ...