Tag: chronic illness

The world’s first disabled-led national youth ensemble, the National Open Youth Orchestra (NOYO), returns to London with an uplifting programme of ...

Canary journalist writes open letter to her MP over DWP cuts

An open letter to my MP – begging him to oppose DWP benefits cuts

by Rachel Charlton-Dailey

If I’m honest, I’ve struggled to write a column this week. While our deepest fears were confirmed with Labour's planned ...

Long Covid campaigners are set to return to parliament

Long Covid campaigners to target Parliament after five years of neglect

On Tuesday 18 March campaigners from Not Recovered UK - who all live with long Covid or are impacted by ...

Karen Gordon, a severe ME patient, laying in bed with her eyes and ears covered as her mother looks on

NHS still refusing a severe ME patient vital care – more than a year after she was hospitalised

by Hannah Sharland

A woman with severe myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) has spoken out - from her hospital bed - about the NHS's continued ...

Damning new DWP research shows it is failing disabled people – just as Labour wants to cut their benefits

13 March 2025

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced the redeployment of 1,000 existing work coaches to support sick and ...

Kim Leadbeater’s Assisted Dying Bill is now a clear and present danger to disabled people

13 March 2025

Members of the parliamentary committee responsible for the Assisted Dying Bill have dropped the key part of the proposed law ...

Long Covid Awareness Day sees two campaigns take action across the UK – and beyond

13 March 2025

Saturday 15 March marks Long Covid Awareness Day, a critical opportunity to raise awareness of the ongoing and often debilitating ...

People holding a banner and blocking a road. The red writing on the banner reads "cuts kill". It was a protest over DWP cuts

A very personal plea to Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer: stop the DWP cuts

by Rachel Curtis

The Labour-led government has announced £6bn of potential cuts to Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefits for chronically ill ...

Richard Burgon dismantles Keir Starmer at PMQs over £6bn DWP cuts

by James Wright

At Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs), Richard Burgon challenged prime minister Keir Starmer on the government considering taking £6bn from disabled ...

Engine idling Scotland ban is not being enforced, campaigners say

Engine idling is banned in Scotland – yet no one is enforcing it

A coalition of more than twenty organisations, including councillors, health professionals, teachers, and NGOs, have joined forces to urge the Scottish ...

Disabled people are already mobilising to protest Kendall’s vicious DWP cuts

by Hannah Sharland

Chronically ill and disabled people are set to hold the first protest against the Labour Party-led Department for Work and ...

The DWP has forced over 600,000 people to repay money it gave them by mistake

DWP caught forcing 680k people to hand back overpayments that were ITS OWN FAULT

In a troubling revelation, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been found to have generated 686,756 cases of ...

Another ‘impartial’ assisted dying group has just been exposed for being nothing of the sort

This article was updated at 6pm on Wednesday 12 March to include comment from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics The ...

Universal Credit managed migration has seen 170,000 children lose benefits

Just as Labour announced £6bn cuts, the DWP reveals it’s stripped 170,000 kids of benefits

11 March 2025

The Labour Party government has announced potential cuts to Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefits of up to £6bn. ...

PANDAS: another NHS scandal that is leaving countless children abandoned

by Hannah Sharland

10 March 2025

Most in the UK will remember March 2020 as the month the Covid-19 coronavirus began ripping through the population. It ...

DWP Jobcentre ESA Universal Credit DWP PIP

Just as Labour wants to cut it, some crucial figures about DWP PIP have been released