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Hospitals and other “priority customers” would not be protected from power cuts in the first days of an unplanned “national power outage”, according to new information from a secret government report on the possible impact on disabled people. The information – […]
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has been ordered to release missing parts of a document that warned national power cuts could cause “catastrophic deterioration” in some disabled people who rely on medical equipment in their own homes. Although […]
The government has decided not to draw up any plans to protect disabled people who rely on life-saving medical equipment in their own homes in the event of a power cut, after more than a year of delays and excuses. The […]
A power company has dodged questions over its plans to fix some of the gaping holes in the safety net that – during a power-cut – should protect disabled people who need electricity to run lifesaving medical equipment in their own […]
The government is still considering whether it needs to draw up plans to protect disabled people who rely on life-saving medical equipment in their own homes if there are power cuts, 11 months after it was warned about possible winter blackouts. […]
The government is refusing to reveal any plans it had to protect disabled people who rely on life-saving medical equipment in their homes if there were power blackouts during the winter fuel crisis. Even though the risk of power cuts is […]
The government and the energy industry have told disabled people whose lives depend on powered equipment in their homes to draw up their own back-up plans to protect themselves ahead of possible blackouts this winter. Both the government and the energy […]
The government is refusing to release documents which could show what measures it is taking – if any – to protect disabled people who rely on medical equipment in their own homes, in the event of power blackouts this winter. Disability […]
Ministers from three separate government departments have refused to say if they have any plans to protect disabled people who need electricity to run lifesaving medical equipment in their homes if there are power blackouts this winter. Ministers from the Department […]
The government has again failed to show how it will protect disabled people who need electricity to run lifesaving medical equipment in their homes if there are power blackouts this winter, despite serious concerns being raised by public health experts. The […]