Older People
Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) has issued an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer urging her to take decisive action to tackle the soaring legal costs of clinical negligence claims. In the last year alone, the NHS spent more than £800 million on legal fees relating to clinical negligence… Read more »
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a non-religious father and his child that the exclusively Christian teaching of Religious Education (RE) and collective worship in Northern Ireland are ‘indoctrination’. Alongside mandatory Christian collective worship and a ‘stigmatising’ right of withdrawal, this is therefore discriminatory under human rights law. This ruling will have wide-ranging… Read more »
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Three hundred thousand pensioners have fallen into poverty over the last year, the government has revealed. The data means 822 pensioners become poverty-stricken every day. Mervyn Kohler, special adviser for Help the Aged, said: “When older people live on a fixed income it is virtually impossible for them to pull themselves out of poverty. “Pensioners… Read more »
Prime minister Gordon Brown has been accused of backtracking on his commitment to eradicating age discrimination by a leading elderly rights group. Help the Aged’s director of policy and external relations says the government is struggling to meet its commitment to tackling the “rampant ageism” which he says remains “rife” in the UK. The attack… Read more »
