‘SILENCE=DEATH’: Long COVID-suffering performers protest outside BAFTAs
Long Covid-suffering performers sounded the alarm on this chronic illness emergency in the performing arts outside the BAFTAs. Members of ...
Tag: chronic illness
Desperate parents expose six-year failure to implement life-saving medicinal cannabis law
Joanne Griffiths, director of End Our Pain and mother of a child with severe epilepsy, is spearheading a powerful campaign ...
DWP boss Liz Kendall probably wishes she’d never opened her mouth (again)
Work and pensions secretary and arch Blairite Liz Kendall has claimed that there are substantial people on Department for Work ...
NHS admits to Canary it doesn’t know how many disabled people it detains under Mental Health Act
The NHS is still spectacularly failing to end its shameful institutionalisation of learning disabled and autistic people via the 1983 ...
Desperate to go: a quarter of children are scared to use school toilets
Nearly half of young people surveyed by ERIC, the Children’s Bowel and Bladder Charity, said they were not allowed to ...
Disabled people in Iran are systemically marginalised; not unlike here in the UK
A new report into the state of disabled people's rights in Iran has recently been released. It paints a torrid ...
Psychiatrists in Denmark STILL plan to forcibly detain a severe ME/CFS patient
Psychiatrists in Denmark are still threatening to forcibly detain a severe myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) patient in a psychiatric hospital. They ...
DWP spent HALF A MILLION to defend itself in just ONE court case
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) threw close to half a million pounds at defending its dangerous plans to ...
The MSM is now announcing Labour’s DWP plans for it. Shameful.
It hasn’t even been a week since Rachel Reeves’ announcement on Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) disability benefit cuts ...
Disabled people are now forced into nursing homes thanks to government failings
Severely disabled people including those with spinal cord injuries are suffering due to problems accessing support through the NHS Continuing ...
Disability Rights UK and Eat Breath Thrive give crucial evidence to Assisted Dying Committee
Disabled witnesses and people with lived experience of mental health conditions giving evidence to the Assisted Dying Bill committee have ...
DWP benefits like PIP are officially GOOD for the economy – despite Labour’s propaganda
Just as the Labour Party government is tabling reforms and cuts to Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefits like ...
U-turn from Assisted Dying Bill Committee is barely a win
In (another) last-minute U-turn, sponsor Kim Leadbeater has finally agreed to hear from a representative of a Deaf and Disabled ...
A ‘life-changing’ new research centre for deafblind people is opening
A new deafblind UK centre for education and research based at Birmingham City University (BCU) has been hailed as “life-changing” ...
DWP admits cost of living payments failed to properly support disabled people
Chronically ill and disabled Universal Credit claimants saw their health deteriorate across the course of 2023 - despite receiving the ...
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day disabled people are still being killed by the state
Let’s play a game of statement spot the difference. The first: £300m bill for handouts: Spending on disability benefits for ...
Is Labour unleashing PACE trial 2.0 with the DWP?
After Labour Party chancellor Rachel Reeves' recent announcements relating to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), chronically ill and ...
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