Fairbanking support for social housing tenants 0 comments
Fairbanking Foundation helps Orbit tenants manage money The Fairbanking Foundation is a financial well-being charity which was established to make financial products fairer for consumers. It has worked with Orbit, [...]
Digital Games for Rehabilitation 0 comments
Research into digital games and mobile apps Digital Games for Rehabilitation and Recommender Apps with Privacy Management for Disabled People Dr Marion Hersh, senior lecturer in Biomedical Engineering at the [...]
What chance an NHS wheelchair? 3 comments
Answer: It depends where you live As part of their disability month, BuzzFeed News has been investigating NHS wheelchair services Their research shows just how much luck is [...]
Closomat for all the family Comments disabled
How do you value independence? If you ask Karl van Gool which fixture in his home he values more than any other, he’d say it was his toilet. “The independence [...]
Remap awards 2017 0 comments
Remap volunteers celebrate award-winning projects Remap celebrated some of its volunteers’ best projects at its annual awards ceremony in London today. Remap is a charity that helps disabled people achieve [...]
Social Value Act 0 comments
Social Value Act should change commissioning The Public Services (Social Value) Act came into effect in 2013. It requires people who commission public services to think about how they can [...]
How much osteoarthritis pain is enough? 0 comments
Pain tests used to ration joint replacement surgery Anybody who has osteoarthritis will know that it is very painful. Mobility, muscle strength and balance can be quickly lost, as sufferers [...]
Lords Report on the Long-term Sustainability of the NHS 0 comments
Today sees the publication of a report on the future of the NHS The House of Lords Select Committee on the Long-term Sustainability of the NHS has slammed the ‘short-sightedness’ [...]
Taking action on wheelchair access 3 comments
Wheelchair access is still not a given… Update 14 November 2017 – judgement delivered in the first Mill Road case click here to go straight down to background on the [...]