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Sir Bert Massie

Tanni says 10,000 signatures could finally transform wheelchair services

By John Pring on 24th July 2015 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Tanni says 10,000 signatures could finally transform wheelchair services
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A disabled peer has appealed for more than 10 000 people to put their names to a new campaigning charter, in order to pressure health bosses and politicians into improving England’s much-criticised wheelchair services. Baroness [Tanni] Grey-Thompson posed for pictures outside […]

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 […]

‘Sinister’ new lobbying laws ‘are closing down debate’

By John Pring on 21st February 2015 Category: Activism and Campaigning

‘Sinister’ new lobbying laws ‘are closing down debate’
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Disability organisations have been intimidated by new lobbying laws – and the risk of losing government contracts – into failing to campaign on key issues like social care and welfare reform in the run-up to the general election, say disabled campaigners. […]

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