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Petition: Fund research into any relationship between microclots & long Covid & ME
Petition: Fund research into any relationship between microclots & long Covid & ME A private petition to the UK Government highlights apparent similarities between long COVID and ME/CFS, and requests research, not just support, into diagnosis, treatment and protocols … Continue reading
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Tagged biomedical research, long Covid, microclots, Petition, UK government
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Hidden from sight: why the complexity of ME/CFS needs to be recognised by policy makers
Hidden from Sight: Why the complexity of ME/CFS needs to be recognised by policy makers, by Tomruk Ustunkaya and Richard Machin, by People, Place and Policy Vol 15, #2, pp. 91-99, November 2021 Background: An estimated 260,000 people in the UK … Continue reading
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Tagged biomedical research, Department of Health and Social Care, DWP, politics, Richard Machin, Tomruk Ustunkaya, UK government, welfare benefits
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Outcry that the UK Government continues to delay changes to PIP
Disability Rights UK blog post, 20 April 2018: DWP to decide PIP claims using unlawful and discriminatory rules until summer 2018 In December 2017, a High Court decision found that PIP mobility component regulation changes, which affected those with psychological … Continue reading
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Tagged Benefits, Department of Work and Pensions, DWP, Personal Independence Payment, PIP, UK government
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UN says UK government’s austerity policies have caused ‘a human catastrophe’ for sick & disabled
Disability News Service blog post, by John Pring, 24 August 2017: UK faces UN examination: Government cuts caused ‘human catastrophe’ An international committee of disabled human rights experts have delivered a series of withering attacks on the UK government over its … Continue reading
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Tagged UK government, UNCRPD, United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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UN confirms that UK government’s treaty violations were both grave AND systematic
Disability news service blog post, by John Pring, 29 June 2017: UN confirms that UK government’s treaty violations were both grave AND systematic The United Nations (UN) committee that found the UK government guilty of violating the UN disability convention … Continue reading
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Tagged John Pring, UK government, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD
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Motion to postpone ESA cuts passed, but not binding on UK government
Five Tory MPs joined opposition MPs, on 17 Nov 2016, in voting for a backbench motion calling on the government to postpone a proposed cut in employment and support allowance (ESA). The motion, which was passed by 127 votes to … Continue reading
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Tagged DBC, Disability Benefits Consortium, distributional analysis, ESA, UK government, Universal credit, welfare cuts
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Opportunity for disabled people to help hold Government to account on its record on disabled people’s rights
Disability Wales blog post, 26 July 2016: Opportunity for disabled people to help hold Government to account on its record on disabled people’s rights In 2017 the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities will be examining the UK’s compliance with … Continue reading
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Tagged Disability Rights UK, Disability Wales, disabled people, UK government, UNCRPD, United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
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UK Government says more high quality CFS/ME research proposals needed
A petition with 15,400 signatures calling for ‘good quality research into the root cause of the illness’ closed on 14 July 2016 and received the response that: ‘The Government supports research into CFS/ME through the MRC and the NIHR. High … Continue reading
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