A safe bed has at last been found for a suicidal teenager whose case prompted a High Court judge to condemn care provision as a disgrace. In his ruling, Sir James Munby, the most senior …
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Diabetes prescriptions cost NHS almost £1 billion per year
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 …
Continue readingNew law requires taxi drivers not to discriminate against wheelchair users
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 …
Continue reading‘Ninja’ drug is an alzheimer beater
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 …
Continue readingThousands of disabled Scots ‘face new benefits tests’
Tens of thousands of disabled Scots face controversial benefits assessments, according to figures highlighted by Scottish Labour. Around 130,000 working age people in Scotland were receiving Disability Living Allowance (DLA) at the end of last …
Continue readingAre mental health services getting better?
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 …
Continue readingMental health boss horrified by bbc’s panorama
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 …
Continue readingTriple amputee soldier sets sail around the world
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 …
Continue readingRobotic exosuit will help stroke victims
Stroke patients who have difficulty walking may soon benefit from an invention developed in the United States. A team of researchers has created a soft robotic ‘exosuit’ to help patients walk around with confidence. A …
Continue readingNeed a wheelchair? then pay for it yourself
There has been a fourfold increase in the number of people forced to use a crowdfunding site to buy their wheelchair. Kelly Palmer, 38, says, “I feel like a prisoner who every now and again is …
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