After the NHS failed Maeve, on Severe ME Day campaigners will call for an NHS protocol
Thursday 8 August is Severe myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) Day. And this year, grassroots ME organisations will launch a new campaign ...
Tag: disability
DWP wrongly accused PIP claimant of £28,000 fraud – then backtracked
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has wrongly stripped a disabled woman of her vital Personal Independence Payment (PIP). ...
Disabled people march on Downing Street to demand accessible housing
This week disabled campaigners and allies marched on parliament to demand the new government pledge to build new accessible housing. ...
A major ME charity shared an article gaslighting Maeve after her death
It’s the second week of an inquest into the death of Maeve Boothby O’Neill. In 2021, the 27-year-old died of ...
Labour DWP ministers leave chronically ill and disabled people in the dark over controversial PIP reform proposals
Labour Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) ministers are keeping hush hush over the new government's plans for the Tories ...
Labour’s housing policy has already forgotten about disabled people
So far, the policy announcements made by Labour regarding housing and in their Renters Reform Bill have mentioned affordability. However, ...
DWP makes callers wait 753 years says report – but that’s the good news
In just one year, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) made members of the public wait a collective 753 ...
This week: legal challenge against the government from disabled people and Friends of the Earth
A legal challenge over the UK government’s failure to protect disabled people, property and infrastructure from the foreseeable impacts of ...
One sentence from the coroner accidentally summed up why the NHS failed Maeve
It has been day three of the inquest into the death of Maeve Boothby O'Neill, who died of myalgic encephalomyelitis ...
Murdoch’s Times now pushing DWP benefit fraud propaganda for Labour
The now Labour-led Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has published its annual report. So predictably, it was prime opportunity ...
Disability activist was granted Freedom of the City – then couldn’t get on the stage
It’s amazing how ableism can so quickly turn honor and celebration into insult and injury. That might sound like the ...
Locked up against her will: meet Megan, forcibly detained in a learning disabled facility
Content warning: this article contains descriptions of physical and emotional abuse that some readers may find upsetting. With the police's ...
The DWP and NHS will be working together if Labour’s Blairites get their way
A new report has offered a revealing insight into the Labour-led Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) likely "back to ...
Disabled people took over Parliament Square to once again fight for their basic rights
Chronically ill and disabled people took over Parliament Square to demand that the new Labour Party government undo years of ...
Maeve Boothby O’Neill’s inquest has already highlighted how little doctors understand ME/CFS
Monday 22 July was the start of an inquest into the death of a young woman with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS). ...
DWP PIP consultation set to close as a long Covid group calls out Labour government
Today - Monday 22 July - is the final day to respond to the previous Tory government's controversial consultation on ...
When are we going to talk about the corporate media’s complicity in Covid deaths?
The first report from the Covid-19 inquiry came out yesterday and told us what many of us already knew - ...
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