Source BBC:
The chief executives of more than 30 charities have written to ministers urging them not to restrict access to a disability benefit.
5 things you need to know about today’s PIP changes
Source MS Society:
Personal Independence Payment ( PIP ) is a benefit helps cover the extra costs you can face if you need help doing everyday tasks or find it difficult to get around. It’s replacing Disability Living Allowance ( DLA ) for people of working age across the UK. Read moreabout 5 things you need to know about today’s PIP changes
Listen to Caroline Wyatt on the Jeremy Vine show
Source BBC:
Listen to Caroline Wyatt talking about MS and her experience of stem cell therapy on the Jeremy Vine show, BBC Radio 2. Caroline is on after the 1pm news an hour into the show. To listen click here.
New ‘budget impact test’ could delay access to new drugs
NICE has approved a new affordability test for drugs, which could delay one in five new treatments becoming available on the NHS by up to 3 years.
Boat Trip
Friday 19th May, 11-1 (boarding 10.45)
- Boarding at Eynsham lock, travelling upstream through Pinkhill Lock, turning at the Ferry pub at Bablock Hythe before heading back downstream.
- Hot/Cold drinks, biscuits provided (you can take your own lunch).
- Takes 5 wheelchairs (carer needed too), 12 people in total.
- Ramp/lift, disabled toilet.
Cost: if 12 people go: £16 each,
more if less people go.
Help Needed
Can you spare 1.5hrs to collect at Millets Farm Frilford on Easter Saturday 15th April? Sign-up form on the desk.
Anyone can nominate a charity or volunteer for an award
Anyone can nominate a charity or volunteer for an award, if you think the charity and/or a volunteer deserves to be nominated please complete the form and return by email or post by 12.00pm Monday 3rd April.
Nuffield Hospital
If anyone is going to the Nuffield hospital anytime soon, please let Sue know so you can take some centre leaflets for the racks.
Thank you.
Mouse model helps explain why some patients with multiple sclerosis have seizures
Source EurekAlert:
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system that affects nearly 2.3 million people worldwide. MS is triggered when the immune system attacks the protective covering around nerve fibers, called the myelin sheath. The “demyelination” that follows damages nerve cells and causes impaired exchange of information between the brain and body as well as within the brain itself. Read on.
Money Box Live: Self-employment and disability
Source BBC:
There are a record 5m self-employed workers in the UK.They account for the 45 per cent of the growth in total employment since 2008. Analysis of the figures show that 16% of working disabled people identify as being their own boss, compared with 13% of the non-disabled population. Read on and listen here.
