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NHS bodies face legal action by human rights watchdog over care home threat

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  By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The equality and human rights watchdog has written to 13 NHS primary care organisations to warn them about discriminatory policies that could see service-users with complex healthcare needs forced into … Continue reading →

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Posted in CCG, Conservatives, EHRC, Fleur Perry, Human Rights, Irwin Mitchell, Naphtali Denderowicz, NHS | Tagged Conservatives, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, UK news | Leave a reply

Local NHS is blackmailing service-users into accepting unsafe care, MPs hear

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      By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd November 2017 People with complex healthcare needs are being “blackmailed” by their local NHS bodies into accepting unsafe levels of care in their own homes, a committee of MPs has … Continue reading →

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Posted in CCG, Continuing Healthcare Alliance, EHRC, NHS, Spinal Injuries Association | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, Scottish politics, Society, UK news, Welfare | Leave a reply

Labour conference: Student forced to crowdfund pain-free wheelchair

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By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 A disabled student has told Labour’s annual party conference that she has been forced to resort to crowdfunding to obtain a wheelchair that is suitable for her needs, because of “chronic” … Continue reading →

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Posted in Disability Labour, Labour Party, NHS, Rebecca Boot, UNCRPD, Wheelchair | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Equality, Human rights, John Pring, Labour, Politics, UK news, UNCRPD, welfare state | Leave a reply

#GE2017 “I cannot believe that so many people across the UK are planning to vote for such a hard, uncaring Tory Government” ~ Dr Philippa Whitford MP (SNP) Consultant Breast Cancer Surgeon

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“I cannot believe that so many people across the UK are planning to vote for such a hard, uncaring Tory Government – and that so many others will simply stand back and not vote at all” ~ Surgeon Dr Philippa Whitford MP (SNP)

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Posted in #CripTheVoteUK, Access To work, Atos, Black Triangle Campaign, Black Triangle News, Boycott Workfare, Conservatives, CRIP The Vote UK, CRPD, Damien Green, Disability Discrimination, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, GE17, GE2017, General Election, General Medical Council, General Practice, GP, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, NHS, Penny Mourdant, Penny Mourdaunt, PIP, PIP Deaths, Scottish Mental Welfare Commission, Shaping our Lives, SNP, Social Care, Tories, Tory, UC, UN, United Nations, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP, Work Programme | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Equality, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, Labour, PIP, Scotland, Scottish politics, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment, Workfare, Yes Scotland | Leave a reply

#BMJ #BritishMedicalJournal ‘#FirstDoNoHarm’: are #WCA #disabilityassessments associated with adverse trends in #MentalHealth? ~ assessments have had serious adverse consequences for mental health in England, which could outweigh any benefits that arise from moving people off disability benefits – A longitudinal ecological study – B Barr1, D Taylor-Robinson1, D Stuckler2, R Loopstra2, A Reeves2, M Whitehead1 Author affiliations

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Abstract Background In England between 2010 and 2013, just over one million recipients of the main out-of-work disability benefit had their eligibility reassessed using a new functional checklist—the Work Capability Assessment. Doctors and disability rights organisations have raised concerns that … Continue reading →

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Posted in Atos, Blog, Conservatives, Damien Green, Disability Discrimination, DRUK, DWP, Maximus, MHRN, NHS, Scottish Mental Welfare Commission, Suicide Crisis, UKCRPD, UN, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, disability rights, DWP, Human rights, UNCRPD, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

PIP goalpost shift reveals awful mindset of the Tories

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By Tasmina Ahmed Sheikh  for National Scot Newspaper 1st March 2017   Sometimes it’s more than helpful for each of us, and especially those of us in public life, to detach ourselves from our personal perspectives to consider how others … Continue reading →

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Posted in Damien Green, DWP, NHS, PIP, SNP | Tagged Benefits, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, DWP, PIP, Scotland, Scottish politics, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

Spartacus exposes work and health green paper ‘smokescreen’

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By John Pring Disability News Service 16th Frebruary 2017 Campaigners have published a withering 237-page attack on the government’s work, health and disability green paper, accusing ministers of creating a “smokescreen” to disguise their intention to cut support and force … Continue reading →

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Posted in Access To work, Conservatives, Damien Green, Debbie Abrahams, DWP, GP, Health and Care professions Council HCPC, NHS, Penny Mourdant, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP, Work Programme | Tagged Austerity, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DWP, Green Paper, Human rights, Improving Lives Paper, John Pring, Politics, Smokescreen Report, UK news, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Dr Sarah Glynn: Why we must resist the ‘work cure’

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By Dr Sarah Glynn SUWN  1stNov 2016 Ahead of the IdeaSpace event in Glasgow this week, Dr Sarah Glynn of the Scottish Unemployed Workers’ Network says people should beware the Tory rhetoric around the ‘work cure’ THE new secretary of … Continue reading →

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Posted in Atos, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, Cradle2Grave Campaign, Damien Green, Disability Confident, Disability Discrimination, DWP, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, Lord David Freud, Maximus, MHRN, Mo Stewart, NHS, Police, Scottish Unemployed Workers Network, United Nations, Unum, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Black Triangle Campaign, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, DWP, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, Labour, Politics, Scottish politics, UK news, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Care crisis: Council’s failings mean disabled man has to be dragged upstairs to his flat

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  October 13th 2016 by John Pring -Disability News Service A disabled man has to be dragged up the stairs to his second-floor flat by his personal assistant because of his local council’s failure to rehouse him in safe, accessible … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle News, CQC, NHS | Tagged Austerity, Disability News Service, disability rights, DNS, Human rights | 1 Reply

Tory conference: Mowat hides from heat over social care crisis

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By John Pring Disability News Service October 6th 2016   The Conservative party has refused to explain why ministers appear to have dodged any mention or discussion of the social care crisis at this week’s annual conference. Health secretary Jeremy … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle News, Channel 4, Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, ILF Fund, Learning Disability England, NHS | Tagged Disability, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, Human rights, Independent Living Fund, John Pring, Politics, Welfare, Welfare Reform | Leave a reply

Crisis and resistance in mental health services in England

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September 5th 2016 Published in the Critical and Radical Social Work international journal, this 2015 academic paper is just in from the team at Liverpool Hope Uni, via ResearchGate, and identifies the crisis in mental health services and the significance … Continue reading →

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Posted in Atos, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Lord David Freud, MInd, NHS, Rethink, Unum, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

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Mencap inquiry finds institutional discrimination against people with learning disabilities led to at least 74 deaths

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Posted in Black Triangle News, NHS | 3 Replies

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In my political lifetime, I have never seen a more callous or inept crew in charge. This is no time for Labour to lose its nerve

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Some NHS treatments deemed unaffordable as experts says debate needed on what NHS can offer

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‘Planned 49% limit’ for NHS private patients in England

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NHS hospitals in England will be free to use almost half their hospital beds and theatre time for private patients under government plans. A recent revision to the ongoing health bill will allow foundation hospitals to raise 49% of funds … Continue reading →

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Councillors fear being scapegoats for fees under new checks ensuring doctors complete death certificates correctly

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King’s Fund says government making mistake by handing NHS budgets to GPs without any body having oversight

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Patients’ NHS records could be shared with private firms

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Private health firms could be given access to anonymous NHS patient records and other NHS data, under plans to be unveiled by David Cameron. Making such data available would help the British life sciences sector become a world leader and … Continue reading →

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BMA says contracts race is unfair to NHS bidders, undermining Andrew Lansley’s pledge of local clinical leadership

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Leaked Document Shows How Doctors Can Profit From Welfare Reform

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A Channel 4 News investigation reveals that under the reforms of the NHS, GPs could end up making decisions based on profit rather than the clinical needs of the patient.

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