Disabled car badge misuse tackled
(copied from BBC website)
20 Oct 2008
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Fatty acids clue to Alzheimer's
(Copied from BBC website)
20 Oct 2008
Clegg backs Carers Week
Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrats on being asked about what he thought about Carers and Carers' Week, said
10 Jun 2009
'Britain's carers need greater recognition' says Annette Brooke MP
Annette Brooke MP has teamed up with TV and radio presenter Jonathan Dimbleby to support this year's Carers Week. To celebrate the contribution made by those people in Mid Dorset and North Poole and throughout the UK who provide unpaid care for someone who is ill, frail or disabled.
10 Jun 2009
Mistreatment of elderly in NHS, and the whistle blowing nurse
You may have heard about Nurse Margaret Haywood, a whistle blowing nurse struck off the Nursing register for secretly filming inhuman & degrading treatment of elderly patients in a NHS hospital, for BBC Panorama. 42000 people have now signed an online petition from the Royal College of Nursing calling for her re-instalment. It has been a catalyst for an outpouring of grief and anger about poor and unequal treatment of the elderly that is all too common in the NHS.
10 Jun 2009
Nick Clegg Backs Move to Encourage More Disabled MPs
Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrats has pledged to encourage more disabled people to stand for Parliament and to highlight the current under-representation of disabled people in British politics. He met with Juliet Williams, Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate for Brighton Kemptown, who is disabled, and promised to do more to remove the many access and attitudinal barriers that prevent disabled people from entering politics.
17 Jun 2009