Response to ‘Shaping Future Support’ by Mo Stewart
“The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are immune to the amount of human suffering created since the adoption
Continue readingResponse to ‘Shaping Future Support’ by Mo Stewart
“The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are immune to the amount of human suffering created since the adoption
Continue readingResponse to ‘Shaping Future Support’ by Mo Stewart
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd March 2018 The equality and human rights watchdog has written to 13
Continue readingNHS bodies face legal action by human rights watchdog over care home threat
By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd November 2017 People with complex healthcare needs are being “blackmailed”
Continue readingLocal NHS is blackmailing service-users into accepting unsafe care, MPs hear
By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 A disabled student has told Labour’s annual party conference that she
Continue readingLabour conference: Student forced to crowdfund pain-free wheelchair
“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) … Continue reading#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
Abstract Background In England between 2010 and 2013, just over one million recipients of the main out-of-work disability benefit had
By Tasmina Ahmed Sheikh for National Scot Newspaper 1st March 2017 Sometimes it’s more than helpful for each of
Continue readingPIP goalpost shift reveals awful mindset of the Tories
By John Pring Disability News Service 16th Frebruary 2017 Campaigners have published a withering 237-page attack on the government’s work,
Continue readingSpartacus exposes work and health green paper ‘smokescreen’
By Dr Sarah Glynn SUWN 1stNov 2016 Ahead of the IdeaSpace event in Glasgow this week, Dr Sarah Glynn of
Continue readingDr Sarah Glynn: Why we must resist the ‘work cure’
October 13th 2016 by John Pring -Disability News Service A disabled man has to be dragged up the stairs
By John Pring Disability News Service October 6th 2016 The Conservative party has refused to explain why ministers appear
Continue readingTory conference: Mowat hides from heat over social care crisis
September 5th 2016 Published in the Critical and Radical Social Work international journal, this 2015 academic paper is just in
Continue readingCrisis and resistance in mental health services in England
Mencap inquiry finds institutional discrimination against people with learning disabilities led to at least 74 deaths … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Some NHS treatments deemed unaffordable as experts says debate needed on what NHS can offer … Continue reading
NHS hospitals in England will be free to use almost half their hospital beds and theatre time for private patients
Continue reading‘Planned 49% limit’ for NHS private patients in England
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 … Continue reading
Private health firms could be given access to anonymous NHS patient records and other NHS data, under plans to be
Continue readingPatients’ NHS records could be shared with private firms
BMA says contracts race is unfair to NHS bidders, undermining Andrew Lansley’s pledge of local clinical leadership … Continue reading