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Rugby League side Widnes Vikings and social care charity Community Integrated Care have launched a partnership to deliver a long-term programme that promotes the health, wellbeing and happiness of people supported by the charity, its…
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Simon Cramp reviews two recent publications, one focusing on direct payments and personal budgets, the other on devolution for local government.
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In this guest blog, Simon Cramp recounts his week in London attending conferences and giving his analysis of Chancellor George Osborne's Budget.
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Learning disability charity Prospects is to join the Livability Group, and within 2 years will become a fully integrated part of the group, it has been announced.
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People with a learning disability are being asked to contribute to new tests that will help improve NHS services ranging from dentistry to acute care, NHS England has announced.
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A special edition of accessible magazine Easy News has been published, which includes an easy read summary of the forthcoming EU Referendum.
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People from certain groups in society – including those with mental ill health or learning disabilities – are experiencing poorer quality care at the end of their lives than others because providers and commissioners do not always…
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The Dallaglio Foundation, the charity founded by England Rugby legend Lawrence Dallaglio OBE, has teamed up with mental healthcare and education specialists Priory Group to help young people with autism, Asperger’s and behavioural,…
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Learning disability charity Mencap is calling for dating website OkCupid to remove a deeply offensive question and apologise to people with a learning disability for the offence caused.
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Patients at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust are safe, although there is much work the trust needs to do to improve standards, Minister for Community and Social Care, Alastair Burt, has said.
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