On Monday 18 July, the Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley, set out the new government’s plans to reform the NHS in England. The plans were set out in a document called ‘Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS’. The aim of these reforms is to give more power to doctors and patients in how services look, and how they are delivered.
The Department for Work and Pensions is asking for evidence for an independent review of how the new Work Capability Assessments (WCAs) are working.
This consultation runs until September 10, 2010 and is for people in England, Wales and Scotland. You can view the consultation document, and see the questions by visiting http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/work-cap-ass-call-for-evidence.pdf [PDF file]
I am currently planning Epilepsy Action’s strategy for women. This strategy will guide the work we do in women’s health in the UK, for the years 2011-13.
Tomorrow, Thursday 22 July, the Secretary of State for Health will be holding a live online Question and Answer session from 10.30am.
You can find out more about the Q&A session, and take part, on the Downing Street website.
The UK's Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is asking for examples of where people feel they have been bullied by public authorities because of a disability.
This means the police, social services, schools, bus companies and other agencies such as local councils.
The International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE) has launched the 2010 Excellence in Epilepsy Journalism Award.
The award is open to journalists around the world who can either submit their own work or be nominated by someone else. There are three categories – for print, online and broadcast media. The entries will be judged by an independent panel of media experts and people with experience of epilepsy. The panel will reward responsible, informed, original and stimulating news or feature articles on epilepsy.
Last week was National Epilepsy Week, and last Friday the Guardian newspaper had a special pull-out section about epilepsy.
If you weren’t able to get a copy of the newspaper, you can now download the supplement [PDF file] to read on your computer or print out.
This week is National Epilepsy Week in the UK. It’s a really important week for Epilepsy Action, and we use it to raise awareness of epilepsy.
If you’re on Facebook, it would be great if you could help us promote National Epilepsy Week. We’d really like you to copy and paste the bit of text below and have it as your Facebook status – paste it into the box you see when you log in that says ‘What’s on your mind?’.
We’re thinking of putting some first aid instructions on the web in other languages. We want to offer them in the most useful form. So it would be really good if you could give us your thoughts on these questions.
