A leading charity - the Royal National Institute for Deaf people - says the economy could earn billions more if extra cash was spent on research. It points out that just over 0.1% of the £13.5bn goes on research into "life-changing" treatments.
Schools are not giving pupils with diabetes the support they need and are demanding parents come in to treat their child, charities claim. Some 70% of 2,500 schools surveyed by a coalition of diabetes charities said that when pupils could not inject themselves, parents were asked to help. Diabetic children were also missing out on school trips, the charities said.
Emergency care for female heart failure patients lags behind that offered to men, a UK-wide survey shows.
A post office which was moved to a shop basement is proving hard for disabled users to access, it has been claimed. The Bishop Street post office in Leicester closed and the new branch opened in Gallowtree Gate's WH Smith.
A sacked London park worker has been awarded record compensation of £550,000 because he was the victim of disability discrimination. The man, who suffers learning difficulties, was unfairly sacked from his job by Lambeth Service team, an employment tribunal in Croydon found.
A Devon college that offers vocational training for disabled people is cutting it staff numbers by nearly half in a streamlining move. The St Loye's Foundation in Exeter will go from 73 to 39 staff, with 34 potential redundancies between April and August 2008.
