Campaigning news

The next virtual meeting of the ‘APPG on Spinal Cord Injury’ is on Wednesday 13 July 2022 at 3pm – please invite your MP to attend.

A call for evidence has opened to inform a new 10 year plan to level up mental health across the country and put mental and physical health on an equal footing.

We were delighted to take part in the Urology Trade Association (UTA) and The Urology Foundation’s (TUF) jointly-hosted Parliamentary Reception at Westminster recently, where the theme of the evening was ‘Working together to support innovation in the medtech sector’.

We have joined with more than 50 organisations from across the human rights, equality and civil liberties sector to warn the Prime Minister against the ‘dire consequences’ of scrapping the Human Rights Act and replacing it with a new Bill of Rights.

Despite announcing measures to help strengthen the emergency services and ensure people feel safer in their homes the Government hasn’t implemented PEEPs for disabled people who can’t self-evacuate from high rise buildings.

MAC report – some progress, but more still to be done

The House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee has launched a major inquiry, ‘Lifting the veil: Removing the invisibility of…

We have joined over 30 charities in supporting the call by Hospice UK for the Covid-19 Public Enquiry to include the rise in deaths in private homes during the pandemic as a specific area for investigation.

Following the tremendous response to our call to action, the Government responded and accepted the MAC recommendation.

Our campaigns manager reflects on the impact of today’s budget with regard to spinal cord injured people

We are aware of member’s concerns about the impact ending freedom of movement has on availability of live-in carers and…

This is a really easy way of supporting our campaigns activities – please can you write to your MP and…