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- Doctors’ union finally agrees to spread the word
- Disability Politics UK: call to prioritise step free access
- Children with disabilities: targeted violence and hostility
- Dementia care: how social enterprises are developing products and services
- Adass spring seminar: four things you need to know
- The Disability Audit: the eight coalition policies that have hit disabled people
- DWP told to publish ESA deaths report, after two-year delay
- The struggle to find work when you have Down's syndrome
- PIP Delay Crisis Over, Claims DWP
- Meet Justin Tomlinson MP- New Minister For Disabled People
- A quick guide to new care minister Alistair Burt
- How to use your disability as a strength when applying for jobs
- Devastating impact of cuts on disabled people
- NHS ‘has wasted more than a year’ on latest bid to improve wheelchair services
- Five Thousand Disabled Adults Sexually Abused In Last 2 Years Says NSPCC
- ESA Claimant Takes On Maximus And Wins
- One in five benefit-related deaths involved sanctions, admits DWP
- Manchester United tell family with disabled son to watch Stockport instead
- Joint mental health commissioning strategy
- New parliament sees number of disabled MPs plunge
- Motability under spotlight over cuts to grants… despite £190 million reserves
- Disabled people ‘should come together in new national body’
- 'It's a great honour': Selby appoints UK's first mayor with learning disabilities
- Voluntary Community Social Enterprise Review website
- Cameron downgrades minister for disabled people
- Poor UK cancer survival rates linked to lack of GP direct access to scans
- Charity highlights role of siblings in supporting adults with a disability
- Queen’s Speech fails to mention social care funding
- Queen’s speech ‘suggests the worst is yet to come'
- TV industry must improve representation of disabled people
- The bionic suit helping wheelchair users get back on their feet
- New project to tackle mental health issues
- Equality watchdog contradicts football’s Premier League over access
- Schools 'must improve support for diabetic children'
- National Theatre plans shows on issue of disability
- Rise in mental health bed occupancy
- Watchdog writes to Man Utd after stewards confiscate walking aids from fans
- Government cuts ‘could see disabled people slide back to the bad old days’
- Disabled payment delay unlawful, judge rules
- The 'dragons' who want to help disabled people start their own business
- Boy, 12, wins £120,000 in damages after swine-flu jab left him 'severely disabled' by narcolepsy
- DWP ignores watchdog’s deadline over benefit-related deaths
- Man who cannot walk or talk called for jobcentre 'back to work' interview
- UK woman can ride bike for first time with 'world's most lifelike bionic hand'
- GPs to refer more patients with low-risk cancer symptoms under new NICE guidance
- Disability campaigners clash with police inside parliament over benefit cuts
- Indefinite Award DLA Transfer To PIP Will Start From July In Certain Postcodes
- Disabled children less happy with hospital care than peers
- ILF closure: Process has caused ‘fear, stress and anxiety’, say researchers
- Disability poverty rose sharply in fourth year of coalition
- UK services failing patients with dementia
- Shadow disability minister admits backing assisted suicide bill
- Disabled people's rights threatened by government cuts, campaigners warn
- BBC Three’s ‘Defying The Label’ Season
- From 'bloodied knees' to the House of Commons as a disabled MP
- Mental health patients sent hundreds of miles for beds as out of area placements rise 23 per cent
- Systematic over-medication blights learning disability care
- The Superhumans return to Channel 4
- Accessible Information Standard Approved
- Doctors demand return of lung cancer awareness campaign
- David O’Mar, 58, Found Fit For Work Two Weeks Before His Death
- World First Bionic Eye Gives Hope To Millions
- Seven-day NHS to include child mental health services, minister confirms
- Court hears appeal on ‘unfair’ PIP 20 metre rule consultation
- New report by Business Disability Forum cites lack of skills in line managers as major barrier to retention of disabled employees
- Tanni says 10,000 signatures could finally transform wheelchair services
- BBC3 presenter and journalist crowdfunding to transform the lives of people with disabilities in Ghana
- Disabled voters take pioneering legal action over election access
- Has disability sport lost its London 2012 Paralympics momentum?
- NHS Announce New Care Guidelines For Learning Disabilities
- Fresh evidence that ‘benefit scrounger rhetoric’ is causing hate crime
- Sanctioned Jobseekers With Mental Health Problems Are Not ‘Vulnerable’ Says DWP
- Clubs “Neglecting Responsibility” To Disabled Fans
- Latest Figures Show Massive Rise In ESA Sanctions
- ‘Bizarre’ figures raise fears over ministers’ plans for ESA
- School nurses ‘need better mental health training’
- Number of people developing dementia 'stabilising'
- Boy, nine, fitted with first prosthetic hand that can change grip with gestures
- Iain Duncan Smith criticises employers over disability employment gap
- Disability benefit sanctions soar by 30% in a year
- Thousands have died after being found fit for work, DWP figures show
- Goths at risk of depression or self-harming, research says
- Elderly 'ripped off' in mobility scooter market
- GPs are missing cancer in children - because they 'don't have enough training'
- IDS announces 'fitness for work' U-turn that was five years in the making
- People with autism and learning disabilities excel in creative thinking, study shows
- Starbucks apologises for telling woman she was not 'disabled enough' to use the toilet
- DLA Lifetime Award PIP Transition Started from 1 September in 29 New Areas
- Successful 'Fit for Work' Appeals at Highest Ever Level, Show DWP Stats
- Why is our justice system failing vulnerable people?
- UN investigating British Government over human rights abuses caused by IDS welfare reforms
- Coroners 'ground breaking' verdict: Suicide was 'triggered' by 'fit for work' test
- Schoolboy calls for more disabled characters in children's books
- The quadruple amputee who needs the correct prosthetic
- Welfare to work programme failing disabled and ill jobseekers, say charities
- Disabled fans 'delighted' as Premier League finally acts on access
- Two-thirds of adult social care requests rejected by local councils
- Independent Living Fund: Government silence 'suggests something to hide'
- UK employers report rise in mental health problems: CIPD study
- UN inquiry considers alleged UK disability rights violations
- Parliament's own disability group picks first non-disabled chair in nearly 50 years
- Dementia drug 'keeps patients out of nursing homes'
- Disability benefit cuts will actually make it harder for disabled people to find work,coalition of 60 charities warns
- Problems with the care and treatment provided by the NHS and/or difficulties in accessing health services?
- Consultation on the proposed new adult social care strategy
- The Leicestershire Advice Service for Social Care is here to guide you
- Minister: MPs must help 'open doors' for disabled jobseekers
- 'Homes not hospitals': learning disability care to move to community
- Equality Act 'simply isn't strong enough' for BSL-users, peers are told
- Disability Hate Crimes Rise 41% In A Year
- Companies fear employing people with learning disabilities, survey reveals
- DWP cuts specialist disability employment advisors in jobcentres by over 60 per cent
- Watchdog 'must do more to support disabled people to fight discrimination'
- ‘We must keep banging the drum,’ says bus campaigner after five-year fight for justice
- 2,000 disabled people wrongly declared ‘fit to work’ by DWP in just three months
- Local authorities 'spend close to nothing on mental health'
- Rock band with learning disabilities release first single
- NICE seeks to improve diagnosis and treatment of cerebral palsy
- Premier League clubs face legal threat unless disabled access is improved
- UK’s progress on disability rights ‘patchy and tortuous’, UN told
- Peer pressure sees minister finally announce date for taxi access laws
- Stop the NHS slashing vulnerable people’s care packages in and around Leicestershire
- Minister tells industries to increase representation of disabled people
- Disabled children in England 'finding it increasingly hard to access council care'
- Wheelchair Rugby Loses Funding Appeal
- Plans that could force people into institutions could be ‘front line’ of national problem
- Young people 'fear stigma' if they ask for mental-health help
- Disability benefits process is 'inherently flawed', MPs told
- Businesses woefully ill-equipped to deal with Britain's rapidly growing mental health crisis
- Cash boost for pupils with special needs and disability
- PIP investigation: ‘Horrific’ suicide question sparks fresh assessment inquiry calls
- Disability report: Being disabled in Britain
- Stop PIP reassessments for patients with progressive diseases, campaigners say
- Patients with learning disabilities missing out on health checks
- Thousands have disability vehicles taken away
- Aspire announces GLL and LCiL as first partners to lead InstructAbility
- Easy read guide to voting by post
- Online campaign ‘could enable disabled people to affect election outcome’
- Health Committee inquiry and report: Brexit and Health and Social Care – People and Process
- Women’s Resource Centre report: the Impact of Austerity Measures on Women’s Voluntary and Community Organisations
- Disabled people ‘forced into dangerous workfare that breaches health and safety laws’
- Mental Health Foundation report: Surviving or Thriving? The State of the UK’s Mental Health
- Stirling University to launch home dementia app
- General Election 2017: What are the parties promising disabled people?
- Anger, resignation… and optimism in wake of general election result
- New disabled MPs pledge to fight for rights in parliament
- Queen’s speech: May ‘abandons’ election pledge on access
- The waiting time for a vital disability benefit has risen hugely in 6 months
- Almost 6,000 mental health patients sent out of area for care last year
- Patients increasingly forced to crowdfund their own wheelchairs as NHS provision not enough, doctors warn
- Years of austerity have left personal assistance in ‘very fragile state’
- Over Half Of Foodbank Users Are Households With A Disabled Person
- Prince Harry launches brain injury card in Suffolk
- Iain Duncan Smith says work capability assessments don't work and are 'too harsh'
- PIP investigation: 200 cases of dishonesty… and still DWP, Atos and Capita refuse to act
- Global blindness set to 'triple by 2050'
- My disability abortion bill could halt Britain’s slide towards eugenics, says Tory peer
- Jobcentre Staff Have An Alarming Lack Of Confidence Dealing With Disabled Claimants
- BBC initiative for disabled actors is a ‘wake-up call’ for producers
- Bus industry set to face fresh legal action over access to wheelchair space
- Government accused of breaching UN convention in its treatment of disabled people
- Theresa May admits UK mental health services are 'patchy'
- 2,000 children with learning disabilities left without a school
- UK faces UN examination: Government cuts caused ‘human catastrophe’
- Half of parents of disabled children forced to reduce working hours due to 'unlawful' cuts to school transport
- Summit meeting will aim to bring movement together on independent living
- Have you got the wrong impression about schizophrenia?
- Quarter of 14-year-old girls 'have signs of depression'
- Council’s review finds PIP ‘not fit for purpose’
- Epilepsy medication impact not shared
- What is universal credit - and what's the problem?
- Calls for Amazon to ban 'anorexia hoodie'
- Green man crossings 'too fast' for people with arthritis
- Mental health patients being failed as services face 'potent mix' of workforce cuts and rising demand, shows report
- Universal Credit helpline charges scrapped
- Hate crimes against disabled children rise 150 per cent in two years
- Modelling debut for boy, 11, with Down's syndrome
- Wheelchair access at Premier League grounds improved after campaigning
- Mental health sees 300,000 people leave their jobs each year
- Care Quality Commission report: Annual State of Health Care and Adult Social Care in England 2016/17
- Access to Work: ‘Scheme’s future in jeopardy through cuts and incompetence’
- Tailored treatment study aims to improve prostate cancer care
- Government admits disabled people have been receiving too little financial support from DWP
- Disabled people worry about telling employers of their condition
- Disabled woman takes DWP minister to court over PIP mental health changes
- Women and disabled people hit hardest by years of austerity, report confirms
- New year’s honours recognise campaigners, inventor and Paralympians
- Esther McVey makes disability benefits U-turn over payments
- Educational support for deaf children in England 'in complete disarray'
- Blue badge scheme could be extended to cover autism and dementia
- More than 220,000 people scored zero on disability benefits test
- MPs launch inquiry into online abuse of disabled people, following Katie Price petition
- Open letter from mental health activists probes charity’s links to DWP
- UK sick pay is found to breach international legal obligations
- Psychosis patients 'not getting best care'
- DWP promises no-one will lose out in huge review of 1.6 million PIP cases
- Majority of disability benefit claimants being left with not enough to live on, campaigners warn
- Suffragettes needed? The women still struggling to vote
- New 'miracle jab' promises to ease arthritis pain - and save the NHS billions too
- Antipsychotic drug found to relieve symptoms suffered by millions of people with Alzheimer's disease
- Government’s suicide prevention boss refuses to call for action on ESA risk stats
- Disabled peer raises ‘deep concerns’ over impact of Brexit bill on rights
- PIP assessments: 'Lack of trust' in benefits systems
- Anti-depressants: Major study finds they work
- More than a million benefits sanctions imposed on disabled people since 2010
- Thefts of disabled blue badge parking permits quadruple in England
- High Court rules Tories' disability benefit changes ‘blatantly discriminate’ against mental health patients
- Echolocation could help blind people learn to navigate like bats
- Call for government to ditch ‘discriminatory’ PIP rules for NHS care home stays
- Mystery over shock fall in disability benefits paid to older people
- Disabled passengers' champion unveiled
- Wheelchair users in UK to be given enhanced rights for bus travel
- Spring statement ‘shows disabled people will continue to bear brunt of austerity’
- House of Commons could replace benches with fold-down seats to improve access for disabled MPs
- NHS must prepare for `huge´ demand for new Alzheimer´s drugs, experts warn
- Access to work: Funding increase for disabled workers
- Doctors hope for blindness cure after restoring patients' sight
- New initiative to address ticketing barriers for deaf and disabled fans
- NICE: 'Care providers must ask people with LD what they want out of life'
- Disabled people struggle to afford food and heating, study says
- Government faces legal action over election access fund
- Disability-led ensemble to play BBC Proms
- Women across UK denied mental healthcare around childbirth, say doctors
- Robot helps Jack McLinden, 14, to be Everton mascot
- Cystic fibrosis: Company urged to lower cost of life-changing drug
- Disabled people split over personal health budget expansion plans
- Benefits applications forms to be made more accessible
- Government response to damning inquiry into disability benefit system 'falls short', say MPs
- EHRC appoints eight disabled people to advisory committee
- Sharp rise under-11s referred for mental health help
- Feel the beat: deaf fans fight for access to live music
- Health and Social Care Committee report: The Government’s Green Paper on mental health: failing a generation
- Disabled people face ‘hidden crisis’ in accessible housing
- Equality watchdog ‘considering legal action against government’ over rail access failures
- TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference: ‘Critically-flawed universal credit must be scrapped’
- Call for national research as fears grow over loss of DPOs
- DWP is failing ‘vulnerable’ claimants of universal credit, says watchdog
- US approves UK-grown marijuana-based epilepsy drug
- A Better Understanding of Chronic Pain in CP Patients Is Needed, Review Study Suggests
- Student mental health support must improve, universities told
- Minister lauds £600,000 for rail access… after her department confirms £47 million in cuts
- Scientists have discovered a new type of depression: Finding will pave the way for new treatments for 30% of patients who do not respond to drugs
- Penny Mordaunt becomes first ever government minister to use British Sign Language in Parliament
- Could psychedelics transform mental health?
- Disability Confident employers promise less than one job each on average
- Patients face autism referral and assessment 'lottery'
- Government will pay arrears to thousands of benefit claimants
- Antidepressant prescriptions for children on the rise
- Watchdog’s ‘issues of concern’ over regulator’s treatment of PIP complaints
- Blue badge scheme to provide ‘lifeline’ for mentally ill people
- Seven-year-old double amputee is cast by River Island to model its new active wear range - as the little girl's proud father says there's 'no stopping her'
- Thousands of mothers left to cope alone with mental illness
- International disability community sign up to progress
- Disabled children waiting too long for NHS wheelchairs
- DWP repeatedly breaches FoI laws ‘in bid to hide secret jobcentre reports’
- Quarter of 14-year-old girls in UK have self-harmed, report finds
- Scientists 3D-print a 'bionic eye' that could soon let blind people see again
- Autism dogs: Call for regulation as demand quadruples
- Minister snubs DPOs – and ‘breaches UN convention’ – by refusing meeting
- 'Black hole' in youth mental health support
- Anger over government’s ‘pathetic’ election access report
- Extreme Dwarfanators Wrestling organisers threaten to SUE Leicester arena for cancelling event
- 'The right trousers': Wallace and Gromit inspire artificial muscle clothing
- Are we really on the brink of a cure for Alzheimer’s?
- Parents in England seek legal action over special needs funding cuts
- Waiting times for disability benefit claims soar by three weeks in three months
- Many disabled people hide their impairments to avoid awkwardness, report says
- England amputees thank Premier League for World Cup funding after FA snub
- Police work on disability hate crime is ‘unacceptable’, say watchdogs
- Pregabalin and gabapentin to be controlled as class C drugs
- Government could pay out more than £1bn due to benefits 'shambles'
- Young people with special needs 'being failed in 44% of areas in England'
- Government ‘blocked’ involvement of user-led groups in mental health summit
- Two in five people with learning disabilities not diagnosed in childhood
- Call the Midwife actress Sarah Gordy becomes the first woman with Down's syndrome to receive an MBE
- Regulator sets out ideas for better assisted rail travel
- DWP ‘plans to move more benefits onto troubled universal credit IT platform’
- Retailers Need To Be Doing 'Purple Tuesday' Every Day Of The Year, Not Just A One-Off
- Watchdog calls on government to act ‘before it’s too late’ on impact of cuts
- Builders criticised for lobbying against accessible homes
- Put universal credit on hold to protect disabled claimants, say MPs
- New cervical cancer test could 'revolutionise' screening
- Exoskeleton suits: can 'superhuman' frames cross into the mainstream?
- Mental health: target to boost staff numbers by 21,000 set to be missed
- Being bullied permanently SHRINKS part of the brain 'which raises the risk of developing anxiety later in life'
- AUTISM COULD BE DIAGNOSED AT BIRTH WITH A HEARING TEST
- Changes to disability benefits cost £4bn in extra welfare payments
- Brits with mental health problems TWICE as likely to lose up to £140 a week in benefits
- Benefit appeal recordings not possible at nearly half tribunal venues
- Teenage boy with rare brain cancer among first in UK to receive proton beam therapy
- Amputee Marine Lee Spencer in Atlantic row record bid
- Mental health: UK could ban social media over suicide images, minister warns
- BFI’s free film collection shows 100 years of disabled people on film
- Genetically modified chickens lay eggs with cancer-killing chemicals inside lay eggs with cancer-killing chemicals inside
- ‘This is another crack in the glass ceiling’: RSC casts disabled actors in new season
- Carers quitting jobs from pressure
- Disability-themed emojis approved for use
- UK surgeons hail ‘world first’ op to tackle leading cause of sight loss
- ‘Smiling depression’: it’s possible to be depressed while appearing happy – here’s why that’s particularly dangerous
- Barbie introduces dolls with wheelchairs and prosthetic limbs
- Radical Parkinson's treatment tested in patients
- Bipolar patients 'could be on the wrong drugs'
- Motor racing - Disabled team set sights on Le Mans 24 Hours entry
- Esketamine: US regulator approves nasal spray to treat depression
- Prof Stephen Hawking commemorated on new 50p coin
- DVLA U-turns on autism disclosure policy after uproar
- 'Misleading' DWP letter causing ill and disabled people to lose benefits
- Some claims that London 2012 changed the world are nonsense, says disabled peer
- 'Blindness and mental health can come hand in hand'
- Deaf poet Raymond Antrobus wins Ted Hughes prize
- Drop in type 2 diabetes diagnoses in UK, charity reveals
- Jack Carroll: ‘I was treated with derision and suspicion in my PIP assessment’
- Prostate cancer and death rates have plummeted worldwide, study reveals
- Disabled access improvements at 73 railway stations
- Parkinson's results beyond researchers' wildest dreams
- Almost 2m people will lose £1,000 a year with universal credit – study
- Tomlinson becomes latest ‘shoddy, shameless’ disability minister
- Scientists create decoder to turn brain activity into speech
- Most GPs ill-equipped to diagnose one of the deadliest cancers
- Half of sick or disabled people on low incomes experienced food insecurity in 2016, study shows
- Nursing body failed to deal fairly with PIP assessment complaints, says regulator
- Call for poor and disabled to be given NHS fitness trackers
- What is Mental Health Awareness Week? Why 2019’s theme is body image, and how to get involved
- Doctors must warn patients of ‘severe’ side-effects of quitting anti-depressants
- Disabled people ‘driven to breaking point’ by cuts, says UN expert
- Families rally against special educational needs funding cuts
- Self-harm in girls and young women rising at 'alarming' rate
- Drug which helps woman survive breast cancer can also stop prostate cancer spreading in men, new study finds
- Students want parents to be told in mental health crisis
- The worst places for cancer care waits revealed
- Blue badge permits: People with 'hidden disabilities' to be eligible
- Early brain 'signs of Parkinson's' found
- Tony Awards 2019: Ali Stroker becomes first wheelchair winner
- SEN court case is due to ‘shocking’ and ‘shameful’ austerity impact, say campaigners
- Stormzy’s Glastonbury sign language interpreter goes viral for being amazing at her job
- Disability emojis: Guide dog and wheelchair user revealed
- Majority of passengers with disabilities report problems using trains
- Child mental health unit referrals 'up nearly 50%'
- Universal credit: Disabled people to get backdated benefit payments
- New ‘radical history’ of disabled people’s movement ‘has lessons for today’
- Boris Johnson’s arrival as PM greeted with alarm, scepticism and appeal for engagement
- Government pledges to monitor autism employment gap - for the first time
- Deaf pupils in England struggle at every stage of school, report finds
- Proportion of flawed Atos PIP assessment reports has soared in last two years
- Obsession with social media ‘fuels anxiety in teenage girls’
- Plastic bottles turned into 'cheap' prosthetics
- Mystery over sharp drop in disabled people’s unemployment rate
- Man sets legal landmark as first deaf juror in English court
- Anxiety and depression: why doctors are prescribing gardening rather than drugs
- One-off injection will save children from inherited blindness
- MPs call for overdue government action to ban pavement parking
- Universities 'in dark' over student mental health needs
- Children with special needs are marginalised at school, says NAO
- Paralysed man walks using mind-controlled exoskeleton
- Let patients go for cancer screening at weekends, report urges
- 'Unlawful practices and buck passing' over special needs
- Ministers push ahead with single face-to-face assessments for disability benefits
- Asthma carbon footprint 'as big as eating meat'
- Common painkillers, statins and omega-3 fish oils may curb depression, study finds
- Shock and alarm after 18 police commissioners call for assisted suicide reform
- Ticketmaster makes 'huge step forward' for disabled music fans
- Smoking may increase risk of mental health problems – study
- Equality watchdog ‘considering action’ on benefits discrimination
- Half of disability benefits appeals won in tribunal court
- Some councils' school transport costs nearly as high as child social care
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