Local MP Mark Hunter spoke out on national Carers Rights Day to support Carers UK's campaign urging people caring for ill or disabled loved ones to find out about the financial and practical support they are entitled to.
This week, the British Psychological Society publishes its 180 page reportUnderstanding Psychosis. Like it's 2000 predecessor, it is a polemic game changer, guaranteed to challenge dogma, wobble professional pride and provoke debate on what we can and can't claim about psychosis. Psychotic experiences, like voice hearing and experiencing persistent, unusual beliefs, are framed here as part of a continuum of experience, a normal variation rather than as radically other. Most importantly, it is a report that gives hope - an emphasis that recovery from distressing psychosis is not only possible, but probable. This hope is crucial, for schizophrenia as an idea still sits in the collective conscious as the archetypal terrifying, irrational, out of control mental condition. This potent notion of schizophrenia is one that trumps any other diagnosis, and colonises the heads of those suffering and their relatives. As psychiatric survivor Sally Edwards writes, "I was labelled with all sorts; eating disorders not otherw
People with learning disabilities in England are being kept in hospitals far from home for too long, a review says.
People with learning disabilities in England are being kept in hospitals far from home for too long, a review says.
This annual report, written by the New Policy Institute (NPI) for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, assesses the progress in tackling poverty and disadvantage across the UK The report focuses on money, housing, work, benefits and services, among other indicators.
Five years ago, London-based Disability Rights campaigner Richard Rieser had a brilliant idea. He created UK Disability History Month- a month of events to celebrate disabled people's lives and achievements while recognising the struggles we faced in the past. The Month runs from 22 November-22 December.
