Citizens Advice offer a wealth of information and support on PIP, you can also chat to an advisor online – visit their website for more information
Smart phone app designed to help disabled people find empty blue badge parking spaces being trialled in Reading
A smartphone app designed to help disabled people find empty blue badge parking spaces is being trialled.
Sensors have been placed in 70 disabled bays in Reading which will detect when vehicles are occupying the designated spaces.
These will then send updates on vacant spots to the app users’ mobile devices.
The EU-funded project, called SIMON, is also being piloted in cities in Spain, Portugal and Italy. Read on.
Amazon Shopping
If you are Black Friday Amazon Shopping (or indeed anytime after this) please do so by going via the Oxfordshire Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre website www.omstc.org.uk and clicking on the Amazon logo at the top of the page.
That really is all you need do and it costs you nothing.
Here are the statistics: In the last 2 years, 46 purchases completed this way (totalling £1,017.61) have raised £56.60.
This is very welcome, but we could surely do so much better!
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The MS Society are calling for urgent social care funding.
Source MS Society:
We’ve joined more than 100 charities and professional groups calling on the Government to urgently address the social care crisis in the UK.
The Government’s investment in social care has fallen by a third over the past five years – that’s £1.6 billion. This has left more than one million people unable to get the care they need. Read on.
Employment review finds people with MS lack support at work
Source MS Society:
Many people with MS who feel able to work aren’t getting the right support in the workplace. This is according to a new report published by the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for MS.
This follows a year-long review into whether people with MS have the support they need to stay in, or get back into, work. Read on.
Age of onset for multiple sclerosis ‘linked to distance from equator’
Source The Guardian:
People living in countries further away from the equator develop symptoms of multiple sclerosis at an earlier age, research suggests.
Both genetic and environmental factors are believed to be to behind the development of multiple sclerosis (MS), with previous work revealing that prevalence of the disease is higher among those living further away from the equator – in other words, in locations with higher latitudes. Read on.
Ampyra Helps MS Patients Not Only Walk Better, But Feel Better Too, Study Reports
Dates for Footcare in 2017
Below are the dates for the first six months of next year:
3 January
24 January
14 February
7 March
28 March
18 April
16 May
6 June
All dates are with appointments starting at 9am and the last appointment at 1pm for a 1.30pm finish.
Parking
Make sure you have an MS parking sticker on your car because security are going to start fining people who shouldn’t be in our parking bays.
Your votes are need
All members, family, friends. Please vote for us, we are applying to Aviva for money to replace the water deluge, the total of cost of replacement is £4,500. It’s all done on votes, so we need you to send to everyone you know. Only 2 weeks to vote
