Annette backs the RNID for a healthy hearing future
Annette Brooke MP has joined RNID's call for people to value their hearing and take the charity's specially developed hearing check.
3 Oct 2009
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'Equal access to paralympics must be guaranteed' - Dee Doocey
Dee Doocey, the Liberal Democrat London Assembly Olympics Spokesperson, has received an assurance from the Mayor that he will seek to ensure that the Paralympic Games can be viewed on 'free to view' television and not just be limited to subscription channels.
9 Sep 2009
Annette Brooke MP joins Guide Dogs' campaign to 'Say NO to shared surfaced streets'
A dangerous new street design that puts the blind and partially sighted; disabled and elderly, as well as young children in danger has been condemned at a Westminster event organised by The Guide Dogs Association for the Blind.
29 Jun 2009
Swinson: Depression costing economy £8.6bn a year
Depression is costing the economy £8.6bn a year, up two thirds in a decade, research by the Liberal Democrats has revealed. The figures, calculated by the House of Commons Library show that the cost of depression in lost earnings have risen by £3bn since 1999.
29 Jun 2009
Nick Clegg Backs Move to Encourage More Disabled MPs
Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrats has pledged to encourage more disabled people to stand for Parliament and to highlight the current under-representation of disabled people in British politics. He met with Juliet Williams, Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate for Brighton Kemptown, who is disabled, and promised to do more to remove the many access and attitudinal barriers that prevent disabled people from entering politics.
17 Jun 2009
Mistreatment of elderly in NHS, and the whistle blowing nurse
You may have heard about Nurse Margaret Haywood, a whistle blowing nurse struck off the Nursing register for secretly filming inhuman & degrading treatment of elderly patients in a NHS hospital, for BBC Panorama. 42000 people have now signed an online petition from the Royal College of Nursing calling for her re-instalment. It has been a catalyst for an outpouring of grief and anger about poor and unequal treatment of the elderly that is all too common in the NHS.
10 Jun 2009