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Baroness Tanni-Grey-Thompson

Committee examining assisted suicide bill ‘is skewed’, ‘a stitch-up’… and may have breached UN convention

By John Pring on 23rd January 2025 Category: Politics

Committee examining assisted suicide bill ‘is skewed’, ‘a stitch-up’… and may have breached UN convention
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Disabled campaigners have raised serious concerns about the fairness of the committee of MPs that is carrying out detailed examination of a bill to legalise assisted suicide, after it prevented any disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) from giving evidence in person. The […]

NHS ‘has wasted more than a year’ on latest bid to improve wheelchair services

By John Pring on 1st May 2015 Category: Independent Living

NHS ‘has wasted more than a year’ on latest bid to improve wheelchair services
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The NHS has been accused of spending more than a year on its latest bid to improve wheelchair services, while producing nothing but two conferences and a series of working groups. Critics also fear that NHS England’s wheelchair services improvement programme […]

Disabled peer calls on wheelchair-users to demand NHS improvements

By John Pring on 1st May 2015 Category: Independent Living

Disabled peer calls on wheelchair-users to demand NHS improvements
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One of Britain’s greatest Paralympic athletes has called on wheelchair-users to back a new push to transform wheelchair services across England. Retired Paralympic legend Baroness [Tanni] Grey-Thompson, now a crossbench peer, said that wheelchair-users had been fighting for more than 30 […]

Thousands of hotels are breaching basic access rules, says disabled peer

By John Pring on 28th February 2015 Category: Independent Living

Thousands of hotels are breaching basic access rules, says disabled peer
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Four disabled peers have called on the hotel industry to do far more to improve access for their customers. The debate in the House of Lords heard from the disabled peers Baroness [Celia] Thomas, Baroness [Jane] Campbell, Baroness [Sue] Masham and […]

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