NHS Health Checks are failing to prevent cardiovascular disease. Labour must act.
The National Audit Office (NAO) is recommending a review of how NHS Health Checks are provided in England to help ...
Tag: chronic illness
Access to Work scheme is letting down countless disabled people
When Glyn Hayes from Welwyn in Hertfordshire applied to Access to Work for a new wheelchair attachment, he never expected ...
Disabled people need YOUR support fighting against the Assisted Dying Bill
Labour MP Kim Leadbeater's Assisted Dying Bill will have its second reading, and vote, in parliament on 29 November. As ...
Suffolk County Council’s deadly catalogue of failures in dementia case revealed
A bereaved daughter had to produce her own adult safeguarding review, after Suffolk County Council and joint safeguarding authorities utterly ...
A young woman with severe ME/CFS in Pakistan needs an in-person advocate – can you help?
A young woman, Nevra, who lives with severe myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) is issuing an urgent call out for an in-person ...
Disabled people earn £4,300 less a year – but Labour STILL want to force us into work
How much will you earn between now and the rest of the year? Well if you’re disabled it’s effectively nothing. ...
As David Tennant’s Macbeth gets cancelled, more questions are raised around Covid protections
The cancellations of Macbeth, with David Tennant in the lead role, has led to questions being raised around the ongoing ...
Very severe ME/CFS patient LOSES appeal over sectioning, family says staff now ‘abusing’ her
Carla, a very severe myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) patient has lost her appeal against West Middlesex hospital. Doctors sectioned Carla Naoum ...
Meet Holly – another young woman who’s had the Mental Health Act weaponised against her
With the Budget being announced this week by the new Labour Party government, we have seen yet more of the ...
The NHS public consultation is NOT accessible for chronically ill people. So, the Canary has stepped in.
The new Labour Party government has recently launched an NHS public consultation - to mixed responses. The Canary's Dr Julia ...
Super/Man shows some realities of living with spinal cord injury – but not everyone’s
For anyone seeing Super/Man: the Christopher Reeve Story, which has its UK Cinema release on Friday 1 November, prepare to ...
First case of new Mpox strain clade 1b detected in London
An infection with the latest Mpox variant, clade 1b, has been detected in the UK for the first time, the ...
Reeves just CONFIRMED Labour is carrying on dangerous DWP WCA reforms
This article was updated at 10:20pm on Wednesday 30 October to reflect comment from DWP minister Stephen Timms. Chancellor Rachel ...
Dear disabled people: please stop believing ‘DWP PIP’ headlines by Reach
There’s a lot of fear among disabled people on DWP benefits like PIP at the moment and much of it ...
A long-term ME/CFS campaigner just launched a hospital care charter for ME – and it’s already taking off
Tuesday 29 October is an auspicious day for the myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) community. Crucially, it marks three years to the ...
Disabled people urge Kendall and Reeves not to go ahead with dangerous WCA changes
Deaf and disabled people's organisations (DDPOs) and trade unions have called on Rachel Reeves and Liz Kendall to rethink dangerous ...
BirminghamLive has pushed YET MORE clickbait about DWP PIP reforms
Corporate media conglomerate Reach is at its fearmongering, clickbait antics again over Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Personal Independence ...
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