Recently, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) released its annual report on the state of healthcare and adult social care in England for the year 2024/25. Perhaps not shockingly, it brings up plenty of concerns about how these systems are letting people down – notably, it contains endless re...
In 2017, I saw a cardiologist for the first time. I had been referred after a rheumatologist finally believed the issues I had been going back and forth to doctors for since I was ten, seven years later. An hour later, the junior cardiologist pulled in his senior just to check some things,...
Last year, my mum finally had a hysterectomy due to her endometriosis after years of disabling pain. In the months since, it’s become clear that I will likely be following. But, the care on offer for me so far has consisted of a suggestion to use the contraceptive pill. The kicker? I had a...
Whilst it might already have been clear that the UK government has not properly considered the rights of disabled people in the reforms of the Mental Health Act, the response it has recently given to questions from the United Nations Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (U...