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Disabled campaigners have warned that pressure to push through legislation to allow assisted suicide is sure to continue, even though the “dangerous” and deeply-flawed terminally ill adults (end of life) bill has run out of parliamentary time. Those supporting the bill […]
The vote by MSPs that defeated the latest attempt to legalise assisted suicide in Scotland has provided “new impetus” for those challenging the introduction of similar laws in England and Wales, disabled activists believe. There was huge relief among disabled campaigners […]
A disabled peer has used a debate celebrating International Women’s Day to highlight how a disabled woman was placed in a nursing home against her will after treatment for pneumonia, rather than being returned to her own home. Baroness [Jane] Campbell […]
The disabled peer who has led UK opposition to the legalisation of assisted dying for decades has pledged to work to make a bill passed by MPs so “tight” that only a very few people will be able to take advantage […]
A “sinister” government analysis of the impact of a bill to legalise assisted suicide suggests it could eventually save public bodies more than £100 million a year in health and social care costs, benefits and pensions. The figures – which the […]
Disabled people with progressive and terminal conditions have come to parliament to “plead for our lives” in front of MPs and peers, as a bill to legalise assisted suicide in England and Wales finishes a key stage in the Commons. They […]
Disabled experts who advised the Labour government on its ground-breaking Life Chances report – which was published 20 years ago on Sunday – say successive governments over the last 20 years have abandoned its ambitious goals. The 20th anniversary of the […]
Some of the country’s leading disabled activists have paid tribute to the “immense” contribution of Maggie Davis, an outspoken “rebel”, a powerful advocate and a pioneer of the independent living movement, who died last week at the age of 81. She […]
A disabled peer who lost her first husband through the contaminated blood scandal has called on the government to end its repeated delays in establishing a compensation scheme for those affected. Baroness [Jane] Campbell was speaking for the first time in […]
The government has admitted it has a “limited” understanding of the abuse of disabled people at the hands of their carers and care workers in their own homes. The government review calls for a “stronger” response to protect disabled and older […]