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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 …

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 …

A disabled woman became a recluse in her own home after Government cut her benefit despite worsening condition it is claimed. Trudy Appleby says she was left relying on food banks after Government cuts saw her …

Charites and some Care Organisations could be facing a collective Bill of over£400 million if Minimum Wage back payments are enforced. The problem stems from overnight payments to Care Workers which usually amounted to between …

Doctors are failing to detect dementia in hundreds of thousands of patients, a major study has found. It suggests a third of those affected by the illness do not realise it because they have not …

Ian in Duncan Smith says he will get one million claimants off disability benefit and into work. In his first major speech since the general election, the ‘Work and Pensions Secretary’ is vowing to tackle …