Disability Talk

The number of prescriptions for diabetes has risen by more than three quarters in a decade and now costs the NHS almost £1 billion per year. Amazing as it may seem 52 million prescriptions were …

Sounds great but could this law actually be toothless? For a start it only applies to vehicles that are designated as wheelchair accessible and will apply to both taxis and private hire vehicles. It’s a …

Scientists are developing a ‘ninja’ drug that targets toxic proteins in the brain that could stop Alzheimer’s in its tracks. Early tests have been hopeful and show that the drug halts the chemical process that kills …

The Government says yes but many others say no. With one source saying that ‘mental health is as much a priority in Westminster as reducing the happy hour in the Commons bar’! Pre-election Theresa May was so …

John Lawlor, the chief executive of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, has called on the BBC to apologise for ‘stigmatising’ people on anti-depressants within a recent Panorama Programme. He said he was horrified …

Craig Wood, 26, was 18 when he was caught in a Taliban bomb blast on foot patrol with 2nd Battalion, The Rifles. He lost both legs and a hand and spent the next eight years learning …