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Yes, Mental Health Counts As Disability Novara Media

WEBThe legislation, which covers England, Wales and Scotland, defines disability as: “a physical or mental impairment that has a ‘substantial’ and ‘long-term’ …

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US Health Companies Are Winning NHS Contracts …

WEBAll in all, Fresenius, Davita and fellow private healthcare giant Baxter Healthcare have amassed billions in fines and financial penalties in the US collectively …

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Mental Healthcare Often Isn’t Care at All Novara Media

WEB19 December 2022. A homeless person sits on Oxford Street, London, December 2020. Henry Nicholls/Reuters. Two weeks ago, New York mayor Eric Adams issued a directive …

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How Hostile Environment Confusion Is Continuing to …

WEBDespite the formal suspension of data-sharing practices between NHS Digital and the Home Office in the wake of the Windrush scandal, the policy has left behind a …

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For Trans and Non-Binary People, the Choice Is Between …

WEBTrans people in the UK are more likely than cis queers (let alone straights) to experience homelessness, unemployment, violence and discrimination – it’s not a …

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Like It or Not, New Labour Offers Important Lessons for …

WEBIn the run up to Christmas 2021, the National Health Service was in a sorry state. The average waiting time for patients had reached 12 weeks; nearly 40,000 …

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Policing Has No Place in Mental Health Support Novara …

WEBThere is a long list of people who have died at the hands of UK police officers during a mental health crisis. Among them are Roger Sylvester, Sean Rigg, James …

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To Solve Britain’s Mental Health Crisis, We Must …

WEBby Mark Brown. 26 November 2021. (Pietro Garrone / Novara Media) Listen to this article as audio: British society is wailing about the growing crisis of mental health while also …

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Cold Comfort: So-Called ‘Tough Decisions’ Are Putting …

WEBIn part two of a series covering the NHS winter crisis from within A&E, Dr J asks how the language of 'difficult choices' and 'tough decisions' undercuts the key …

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Marketising the Mental Health Crisis: How the CBT Empire …

WEBPoliticians, NHS bosses and the media have been singing the praises of short term cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for years. And, for Labour, after all, IAPT …

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The Government’s New Mental Health Funding Will Be Spent on …

WEBOn World Mental Health Day this week, the government showed everyone what and whom it values when it announced £122 million is to be invested in 700 new …

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I Have Mixed Feelings About South London’s New Tube Stations

WEB21 September 2021. Aydin Dikerdem (right) and MP for Battersea Marsha de Cordova in front of the Nine Elms underground station, opened on Monday. (Aydin Dikerdem) …

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‘They should be chased out of town’: How a South Coast Council Is

WEBThe number of people sleeping rough in Bognor Regis is rising. But instead of working to protect vulnerable people, local councillors seem to view homeless people …

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How Did British Dental Care Get So Awful

WEBThe scale of Britain’s dentistry crisis is staggering. Before the pandemic, in 2018-19, NHS dentists performed 39.7m dental “courses of treatment”; by 2021-22, this …

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Nurses Tell of Disappointment With Latest NHS Pay Offer

WEBWhen nurses in a majority of NHS trusts voted to strike against another real terms pay cut last year for the first time since the late 80s, the Royal College of …

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Coronavirus Will Require Us to Completely Reshape the Economy

WEBThe Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic is a far more profound event for the global economy than the great financial crisis of 2008-9. It will have more significant …

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Labour’s Silence on Apsana Begum Shows How Morally Bankrupt …

WEB20 August 2021. (Janine Wiedel) Apsana Begum, the Labour MP for Poplar and Limehouse, was recently found not guilty of committing housing fraud, having been accused of …

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This Isn’t Just About Universal Credit

WEBAfter the £20 cut to Universal Credit on 6 October, the standard allowance for a single adult over 25, excluding rent, is just £324.84 per month. For under-25s, it’s …

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Meet the German Health Workers Who Beat Overwork and Saved …

WEBIn September 2021 thousands of healthcare workers launched an indefinite strike over chronic understaffing at two of Berlin’s large municipal hospitals, Charité and …

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