Urgent Community Response (UCR) Team
The Urgent Community Response (UCR) service helps people with often complex health needs stay out of hospital by responding to a crisis in someone’s home, including residential and care homes.
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It’s early days yet but I hope this will become a peer-dementia platform signposting, support and information.
Disability Benefits
My Response to the Timms (PIP) Review,:
I filled in my response to the Timms Review of Personal Independence Payments (PIP) today. The review closes to responses, at 11.59pm tonight (28th of May).
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Motability has paused the compulsory roll out of black boxes (drive smart) in it’s vehicles.
Motability has paused the compulsory roll out of black boxes (drive smart) in it's vehicles. Thank you to everybody who spoke out about this, your voices really matter.
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Upcoming Changes to the Motability Scheme:
From 1 July 2026, there will be four main changes that apply to new leases for Motability vehicles.
Read articleThe Timms Review
The government has launched the Timms Review, currently looking at Personal Independence Payments (PIP). The review, led by Stephen Timms M.P. (Minister for Social Security and Disability) is now seeking input/feedback from disabled claimants and their families/carers, on their experiences, including how their disability affects them, the PIP assessment process, evidence submission, awards and appeals etc.
Read articleUpcoming Changes to the Motability Scheme
From 1 July 2026, there will be four main changes that apply to new orders for Motability vehicles.
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Helpful Information
It’s a sad reflection of our times, that I even have to write this.
It's a sad reflection of our times, that I even have to write this. But, once again, I'm reduced to incredulous indignation by those preying on life-limiting conditions and tragic circumstance.
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Carer Support
Love on the Dementia Spectrum:
Love isn't all romance, hearts and flowers, as imagined when young. It's about caring for someone so deeply that whatever ails them, scars you twice as deeply.
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