So according to the I paper, Meg Hillier would back new benefit reforms if they included conditionality for young people to engage with employment support programs in order to receive benefits. How does she not realise that this is already a thing? It's called The limited capability for work group. People in this group, although disabled have to do the very thing she is claiming to want to bring in. The only people who currently don't have to do this are the ones who have been assessed as not fit for activity through the rigourous capabilities assessment administered by the DWP. People are already routinely reassessed as well if medical evidence suggests that improvement is likely in the short to medium term future. So the only thing I can think they're going to do would be to reclassify pretty much every young person as being fit for work related activity, although I think this would only be able to apply to new Clements or those existing claimants who are about to undergo reassessment. If they did do this, and I must save it no policy has been formally announced yet, so I am reading between the lines, it would be both dangerous and ridiculous waste of money. It would be dangerous because people would be potentially forced into doing something they simply can't, and it would be ridiculous and a waste of money because, as I've constantly said , changing criteria doesn't change the reality of peoples lives. Somebody who couldn't do something before, can't magically do it because a bureaucrat has decided that they should be able to based on vibes. Anyway, all I can say is I really hope I'm wrong. 

Revisiting this thread after 4 years asking what has changed - how are unpaid carers cared for in the hospital #caringcommunity'? @CarersUK ..

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Tomorrow’s paper! This is utterly ridiculous! Every bloody day we get the same - Burnham today, Hunt tomorrow. Acting like they can slash the safety net that keeps us all safe willy nilly with invented jobs for suddenly cured conditions under the phantasy work is therapy.

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Anyone got any spare paintbrushes for some massive tins of the purple stuff? 🤷🏻‍♀️

After being plagued by text messages I recently went to the surgery to make an appointment for a health review next week. Since then 2 questionnaires, all in small print I cannot enlarge so I have ignored them. NHS no longer a service for everyone.

That means a 2.5 mile journey to the surgery for me to see the Care Navigators (receptionists) if you cannot do it online. The assumption is that everyone has someone to help them. I have LPA for my mother so have to deal with an inaccessible system for both of us.

A text from NHSNoReply telling me that from 22 June my GP Practice is going fully digital & all services must be accessed this way. It says signing up to OneLogin makes it all easier 😡 Where is the Equalities Impact Assessment ⁉️ Patients being #ExcludedByDesign. 1/

THEY CANNOT EVEN BE ARSED TO USE ALT TEXT WHEN COMMUNICATING ABOUT PURPLE WASHING PR 🫠

This is being done everywhere in the UK. Both planners and local authorities who commission these projects need to co opt disabled peoole on to their committees so that these situations are dealt with priority any planning permission being granted.Fat chance in hell though of it

I fear a perfect storm is coming 'do more for less' and casualties can be expected.

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@flickhwilliams I’m at York station and the lifts are out of order. @networkrail when are they going to be fixed? Really poor for everyone & tourists.

Ah sorry mis understood the layout , that's just going off a picture how more complicated in real life

No, the crossing is between the tactile paving. Those strips are the borders of the downward ramp on the cycle track which should only be level with the pavement at the crossing point, nowhere else. So it’s correct to the left and incorrectly done to the right of the bus stop.

Totally unfit for purpose.