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The care watchdog has yet to find a significant link between a controversial programme to discharge hospital patients still infected with COVID-19 into care homes and a series of fatal outbreaks of the virus, despite alarming new figures. It came after […]
The government has been accused of abdicating its responsibility to millions of disabled people in England and leaving them to “fend for themselves”, after deciding to push ahead with “reckless” plans to lift most COVID-19 restrictions. On Monday (19 July), the […]
Disabled activists have called for an urgent investigation after new figures showed that deaths of disabled and older people receiving support at home from care agencies rose by nearly 50 per cent during the first 12 months of the pandemic. In […]
A disabled campaigner is hoping to launch a legal action against government COVID rules that force residents of care homes to isolate for two weeks every time they attend a medical appointment or visit a shop. Doug Paulley has also told […]
A disabled woman has described how the government and its contractors failed to make any allowance for her impairment and treated her like a prisoner during her stay in a “managed quarantine hotel”. Because she was placed in an unsuitably small […]
Hundreds of thousands of disabled people in England may have “slipped through the net” and missed out on vital support in securing food, medicines and basic care in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report by […]
The government has been forced to make a series of promises aimed at improving the accessibility of the way it communicates with those shielding from coronavirus. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) made the concessions hours before it was […]
Three separate user-led groups have questioned the government’s “unforgivable” failure to ensure that disabled people with underlying health conditions are treated as a priority for the COVID-19 vaccination programme. They fear that hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of disabled people […]
The care regulator has admitted failing to track vital details about scores of care homes that are being allowed to accept patients infected with COVID-19, while older and disabled people not yet infected occupy other parts of the same buildings. The […]
Disabled campaigners have given a guarded response to the government’s new health and social care white paper, with particular concerns about the continuing social care funding crisis and ministers’ failure to pledge proper co-production and engagement with service-users. Much of the […]