Mark Hunter MP (Cheadle constituency) is backing a campaign by sight loss charity RNIB to ensure that everyone diagnosed with sight loss gets emotional support to come to terms with their condition.
We wish that more bus companies could follow the example of Edinburgh & the Lothians buses and provide a buggy space AND wheelchair space!
Yesterday should have been a big day for claimants of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). It offered two clear opportunities for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to commit to clear steps to improve this vital benefit, which supports people who are too ill or disabled to work. But yesterday was a chance missed.
On Carers Rights Day, Liberal Democrat Reading East Parliamentary Candidate Jenny Woods said more needs to be done to support the12,315 carers in Reading who are the unsung heroes of the system.
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
