The adult disability payment has expanded into seven more areas ahead of a national rollout at the end of next month. People in Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen, Fife, Moray, East Ayrshire, North
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Abortion law is impacting the self-worth of disabled people, a lawyer representing a woman with Down’s syndrome has told the Court of Appeal. Heidi Crowter (pictured), 27, from Coventry, brought
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A wheelchair user who was told her social care hours would be cut has asked MPs to consider what it would be like to have to wear incontinence pads instead
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More than half of disabled people feel “anxious, depressed or hopeless” about financial worries and problems, research suggests. Leonard Cheshire warned that the pressure on disabled people’s budgets will be
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More than three-quarters of a million people in the UK say they have experienced long Covid that has lasted for at least a year, new figures show. The Office for
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NHS services are “failing to communicate properly” with people who are blind, deaf or have a disability, a patient watchdog has said. Communication blunders range from deaf people being asked
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The ending of mandatory coronavirus rules in England will cause “huge anxiety” to immunocompromised and disabled people, leaving them feeling “abandoned” and “forgotten”, charities have warned. The scrapping of free
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Northern Ireland Health Minister Robin Swann has announced an additional £500k in funding to support low income families caring for seriously ill or severely disabled children. The additional money will
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New exercise guidelines for disabled children and young people have been published by the UK chief medical officers. They are underpinned by research from Durham University, University of Bristol and
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Partially sighted people taking Covid-19 lateral flow tests will be able to get help from a new app and video-call service. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) launched the service
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