Monthly Archives: September 2011

Disabled and carers plan to fight closure of Centre for Independent Living

 SOS Westminster
 

Published: 16 September 2011
by JOSH LOEB

CARERS have been forced to set up a do-it-yourself-style day centre for some of Westminster’s most vulnerable people.
 
The Centre for Independent Living in Paddington, which offers activities for deaf and wheelchair-bound residents, will close at the end of this month as part of a shake-up of social care.People with disabilities who have been fighting the closure now plan to club together to stage regular art and cookery classes at another venue nearby.

Di Yeo, chair of campaign group SOS Westminster, called the impending closure “a great tragedy”.

GMC says more support needed for overseas doctors in UK

16 September 2011 Last updated at 01:16

“Being a doctor in the UK requires much more that just clinical expertise. It is also important to have highly developed communications skills, knowledge of UK medical ethics and culture, and an understanding of how the NHS works.

 Culture, medical standards and language are all issues
 
The General Medical Council says some overseas doctors come to the NHS with “little or no preparation” for working in the UK.

It says those trained under different cultural and professional standards need more support.

The welfare reform bill will affect millions of lives at their most vulnerable point

Comment: Govt’s welfare reform bill trick stinks of injustice

Kaliya Franklin is an experienced disability rights writer, blogger, campaigner and founder of The Broken of Britain a non partisan campaign against the welfare cuts.

   

 

The welfare reform bill will affect millions of lives at their most vulnerable point – isn’t that worth proper scrutiny?

By Kaliya Franklin

The government is guilty of attempting to suppress welfare reform bill opposition in the Lords.

The welfare reform bill debate held in the House of Lords on Tuesday was in complete contrast to the bill’s passage through the Commons – constructive, eloquent, well attended and informed. Over 50 peers were scheduled to speak; the interest and strict time limits reflecting the levels of concerns across the House. Even those Lords who in principle fully support the bill had serious questions they wanted answered before the bill was passed.