Tag: chronic illness

22 May 2024

Today in “that bump under the rug? Oh it’s just important disabled news don’t look at that”, the Equality and ...

I write about DWP failures for a living – and now its the reason I’m losing my vital benefit

22 May 2024

I’m supposed to be writing about something completely different right now, but as I was working on that I got ...

Universal Credit website on a phone DWP migration DWP benefit fraud tax credits

DWP has now stripped OVER 180,000 people of their benefits in forced move to Universal Credit

21 May 2024

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has stripped over 180,000 people of their benefits. It is doing so through ...

Every two HOURS someone is paralysed in the UK – nearly DOUBLE the previous estimate

17 May 2024

New data reveals the number of people injured or diagnosed with a spinal cord injury is approximately double that previously ...

Screenshot from the petition, which reads: "An open letter to Anna Gregorowski, chair of the British Association of Clinicians In ME/CFS (BACME) 111 of 200 signatures Thanks for signing! To Anna Gregorowski, chair of BACME Dear Anna, As individuals living with, or affected by, myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME, also referred to as chronic fatigue syndrome, CFS), we are growing increasingly concerned by the direction of travel of BACME, and the media reports around what we consider to be harmful and damaging approaches to caring for with people with ME. We are aware BACME has what many consider to be a controversial history. We are also aware that BACME has taken what it considers steps to rectify its previous conduct. However, as patients we feel none of that has been sufficient and that BACME is still actively harming patients right now. We have concerns in the following areas. However, the below list is not exhaustive:" BACME Chronic Collaboration

A controversial medical conference is taking place behind closed doors, so the ME community calls it out

The 11 to 17 May 2024 is myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) Awareness Week. This year, two major conferences are taking place ...

DWP to hire ‘external agents’ for its benefit fraud fiction as Stride and Hunt stigmatise disabled people

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is once again ramping up its benefit criminal rhetoric around Universal Credit. Specifically, ...

Keir Starmer launching Labour six pledges disabled people

Labour just set out their six pledges – and ignoring disabled people is in all of them

After weeks of hearing the awful changes the Tories have got planned, the Labour Party took to the podium today ...

Rishi Sunak looking down healthy life expectancy disposable income

The Tories have caused healthy life expectancy to reach its LOWEST point on record

Shock new figures reveal that our healthy life expectancy – the amount of time we can expect to live in ...

A housing association is torturing a woman with EDS and severe ME

14 May 2024

A housing association - Adra - is torturing a severely chronically ill woman and putting her life at risk. She ...

A woman with chronic illness lying in a hospital bed with ng feeding and an iv line

There are now over 1.5 million chronically ill women unable to work – yet the Tories just stigmatise them

13 May 2024

New analysis from the Trades Union Congress (TUC) shows the number of women economically inactive as a result of chronic ...

Mel Stride with a wet wipe over his face DWP

The Week in Ableist Bullsh*t: another fantastic seven days for the human wet wipe Mel Stride

10 May 2024

As expected after an embarrassing time at the polls, the Tories were back to take it out on disabled people ...

A groundbreaking community-led conference is set to shake up the scene for people with long Covid and ME/CFS

9 May 2024

A groundbreaking international and community-driven long Covid and myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) conference - 'Unite To Fight' - is about to ...

Illustration of a severely chronically ill women in bed. A house shape in watercolour surrounds her, with running paint in vertical lines reminiscent of prison bars. A purple domestic violence ribbon runs into a blue ME/long Covid ribbon, intersecting severe ME/CFS Australia

Australia’s state and services are trapping a woman living with severe ME/CFS in domestic abuse

3 May 2024

A woman living with severe myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) in Australia is desperately appealing for help to leave an ...

Private health spending shot up by nearly 9% last year as NHS services continue to collapse

2 May 2024

People in the UK spent a record £32bn on mostly private health care last year – up from £29.8bn in ...

vouchers disabled people rishi sunak laughing at a jobcentre queue

Vouchers for disabled people? All aboard the ‘hating us’ bus for our next batshit destination!

29 April 2024

All aboard the hating disabled people bus for our next batshit destination! Having just left ‘doctors can’t be trusted to ...

Eat out to help out poster, with a sign behind saying "stay alert".

Long Covid rates hit TWO MILLION as Tories ramp up the war on disabled and chronically ill people