The death of a toddler shouldn’t be a ‘learning experience’
On 15 November, the inquest into the death of 2-year-old Awaab Ishak in 2020 concluded that the toddler died due ...
Tag: health
There’s officially an epidemic of chronic illness in the UK
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed that the number of people off sick due to chronic illness has ...
This week of lectures on race and class is not to be missed
It's a time of crisis. The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, plummeting living standards, capitalist decay, and the climate emergency affect us ...
Chronically ill people have had to protest yet again for basic support
Chronically ill, disabled people have once more taken to protesting. They're calling for funding for medical research into their disease, ...
Chronic illness: the grief behind the social media stories
Earlier in September, UK tabloid the Daily Mail caused uproar with an article about chronically ill and disabled people. It ...
Government’s unlawful care home policies led to needless suffering and excess deaths
The High Court issued a damning judgement on the government’s handling of coronavirus (Covid-19) in care homes on 27 April ...
Matt Hancock just lied about coronavirus care home deaths
Former health secretary Matt Hancock just lied about the government's knowledge of the asymptomatic transmission of coronavirus (COVID-19). It was ...
The Guardian just protected the DWP over cancer patients’ hardship
Cancer patients are struggling to eat and heat their homes. That's what a charity found when it surveyed 2,000 people ...
The DWP is still ‘penalising’ terminally ill people
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has recently changed its rules around social security claims for terminally ill people. ...
A groundbreaking chronic illness study quantifies the extent to which it affects people
A study by one chronically ill and disabled person reflects the lived experience of countless people. She's conducted groundbreaking research ...
Dying to get treatment, part three: eating disorder treatment in the US is different
Content warning: this article contains mentions of eating disorders, disordered behaviours, and other content. It may be triggering to those ...
Dying to get treatment, part one: eating disorder services fail to save lives
Content warning: this article contains mentions of eating disorders, disordered behaviours, and other content. It may be triggering to those ...
A Labour council is ‘torturing’ a disabled man by threatening to evict him
A Labour-run council is still trying to evict two brothers, one of whom is disabled, from their family home. It ...
Dying to get treatment, part two: the reality of NHS eating disorder services
Content warning: this article contains mentions of eating disorders, disordered behaviours, and other content. It may be triggering to those ...
Dying to get treatment, part four: time for NHS eating disorder services to change
Content warning: this article contains mentions of eating disorders, disordered behaviours, and other content. It may be triggering to those ...
A survey on corporate media and ME needs your input
A survey is looking at how the media depicts a debilitating chronic illness. It is asking people living with the ...
The DWP ordered a sick man who later died of his illness to leave hospital
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) told a severely ill claimant to leave hospital to make his social security ...
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