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Coronavirus: NHS faces legal action over ‘unsafe and discriminatory’ visitor policy  

By John Pring on 7th May 2020 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Coronavirus: NHS faces legal action over ‘unsafe and discriminatory’ visitor policy  
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A disabled woman with high support needs has launched a legal action against NHS England, after it refused to update its policy on visitors that would prevent her being accompanied into hospital if she became ill with coronavirus. Fleur Perry says […]

Many councils unlawfully restrict right to live independently, research suggests

By John Pring on 30th January 2020 Category: Independent Living

Many councils unlawfully restrict right to live independently, research suggests
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Many local authorities are unlawfully restricting disabled people’s ability to choose to live independently in their own homes, and are forcing them instead towards residential care, research by a disabled campaigner suggests. Fleur Perry (pictured) spent more than six months seeking […]

Government faces legal action threat over accessible housing failure

By John Pring on 19th September 2019 Category: Housing

Government faces legal action threat over accessible housing failure
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The government is facing the threat of legal action over its failure to take action to solve the crisis in accessible housing. The housing, communities and local government secretary Robert Jenrick has been told that he may have acted unlawfully over […]

Watchdog forces 13 CCGs to back down over NHS institution threat

By John Pring on 31st May 2018 Category: Independent Living

Watchdog forces 13 CCGs to back down over NHS institution threat
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The equality and human rights watchdog has forced 13 NHS primary care organisations to withdraw unlawful, discriminatory policies that could have seen service-users with complex healthcare needs forced into institutions. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) had written to the […]

Government takes small step over risk of NHS care home discrimination

By John Pring on 12th April 2018 Category: Human Rights

Government takes small step over risk of NHS care home discrimination
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The government has taken a small step towards addressing the discrimination faced by service-users with complex healthcare needs who risk being forced into institutions. Last month, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) wrote to 13 clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) as […]

NHS bodies face legal action by human rights watchdog over care home threat

By John Pring on 22nd March 2018 Category: Human Rights

NHS bodies face legal action by human rights watchdog over care home threat
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The equality and human rights watchdog has written to 13 NHS primary care organisations to warn them about discriminatory policies that could see service-users with complex healthcare needs forced into institutions. The letters from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) […]

Department of Health ignores NHS continuing healthcare human rights warnings

By John Pring on 19th January 2017 Category: Independent Living

Department of Health ignores NHS continuing healthcare human rights warnings
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Campaigners have warned more than 40 NHS primary care organisations across England that policies which could see service-users with complex healthcare needs forced into institutions are a breach of disabled people’s human rights. Despite the warning, the Department of Health last […]

Government ‘could have saved £48 billion on social care’ with full funding of DFGs

By John Pring on 11th August 2016 Category: Housing

Government ‘could have saved £48 billion on social care’ with full funding of DFGs
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The government could have saved nearly £48 billion in social care costs over five years if it had funded all the work needed to make disabled people’s homes more accessible, according to a new user-led campaigning website. The calculations have been […]

Campaigners blaze new trail in appeal for vital technology

By John Pring on 4th December 2015 Category: Independent Living

Campaigners blaze new trail in appeal for vital technology
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Young disabled campaigners have called on the government and the NHS to do more to help them obtain the technology that could transform their lives. A survey of young disabled people by the campaigning network Trailblazers found three-quarters of them did […]

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