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.
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.
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.
Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrats on being asked about what he thought about Carers and Carers' Week, said
Annette Brooke MP has teamed up with TV and radio presenter Jonathan Dimbleby to support this year's Carers Week. To celebrate the contribution made by those people in Mid Dorset and North Poole and throughout the UK who provide unpaid care for someone who is ill, frail or disabled.
(copied from BBC website)
