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• Mobility Scooters Mobility scooters can be a great way to give you back your independence if you currently have limited mobility.
• Powerchairs Powerchairs (or electric wheelchairs) are especially suited to indoor use, although many can also be used outside.
• Wheelchairs Wheelchairs can be either attendant controlled or self propelled and come in a wide variety of colours and styles, and with a large variety of options.
• Walking Aids For those suffering limited mobility walking aids such as rollators, triwalkers, zimmer frames and walking sticks can be absolutely invaluable.
• Ramps Ramps for scooters, powerchairs and wheelchairs are useful for getting your mobility products in and out of the car, the house, and just about anywhere else.
• Rise and Recline Chairs Rise and recline chairs bring an extra level of comfort and mobility for people relaxing at home.
• Adjustable Beds Electric, adjustable beds are perfect for people who have trouble sleeping due to medical conditions such as arthritis, rheumatism, back pain or perhaps breathing or circulation difficulties.
• Canopies Capes, covers, canopies and storage for scooters, powerchairs and wheelchairs can be essential to protect you from the elements when out on your mobility product.

Disability News

Welcome to the disability news section of our website. Here you will find up-to-date articles surrounding various hot topics in the mobility, disability and healthcare industries, issues that may well affect you, our customer. We will endeavour to find you interesting and informative articles every day, so check back regularly for updates!

• Consultation: the social security (welfare reform drugs recovery pilot scheme) regulations 2010

  Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:40:00 GMT

  The regulations would introduce a pilot that would run for two years and requires suspected drug users to attend a two part Substance Related Assessment and comply with a mandatory rehabilitation plan. The closing date for responses is 12 April 2010.

• Tribunals service notes higher volume of esa/ib appeals

  Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:10:00 GMT

  The Tribunals Service Business Plan 2010-2011 states that appeals against employment support allowance and incapacity benefit decisions were 39% higher than those received during the full 2008-09 business year.

• Funding care: how can each generation pay its fair share?

  Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:10:00 GMT

  This Joseph Rowntree foundation report examines the problem of finding extra funding to pay for care which both covers the growing needs of an ageing population and shares the cost fairly between generations.

• Disability living allowance and attendance allowance case law summaries

  Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:55:00 GMT

  These have been updated

• Selected upper tribunal decisions 2009-2010

  Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:55:00 GMT

  These have been updated

• Incapacity benefit case law summaries

  Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:55:00 GMT

  These have been updated

• New social fund proposals to provide 'goods and services' instead of cash for community care grants

  Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:50:00 GMT

  This consultation sets out a package of reforms for the social fund scheme in England, Wales and Scotland. The closing date for responses is 7 June 2010.

• Poorest pensioners to get £80 off their electricity bills

  Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:50:00 GMT

  Up to 250,000 of the poorest pensioner households should get an £80 rebate off their electricity bills this winter because of a deal made between the Government and six energy suppliers.

• Latest upper tribunal decision summaries

  Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:20:00 GMT

  These have now been posted.

• Long term sick could be worse off if moved onto esa

  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:30:00 GMT

  The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) is concerned that people who have been on incapacity benefit (IB) since April 1995 or before will lose out when they are transferred over to employment and support allowance because of changes to how they will be taxed.

• Funding social care: what service users say

  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:55:00 GMT

  This new Joseph Rowntree Foundation report indicates that users favour taxation as the best method of funding social care.

• Report highlights teething problems for esa

  Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:15:00 GMT

  DWP research report 631 examines the early stage of implementation of employment and support allowance (ESA) from the perspective of both staff and customers.

• Reinstating disability benefits for people living in other european countries

  Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:15:00 GMT

  The Minister for Disabled People - Jonathan Shaw MP - has just made a written statement in the House of Commons regarding people who lost their entitlement to a disability benefit after they moved abroad.

• Adult social care: law commission consultation

  Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:40:00 GMT

  The consultation contains detailed proposals for the law reform of adult social care. The closing date for responses is 1 July 2010.

• Consultation: the right to control regulations

  Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:00:00 GMT

  The Office for Disability Issues (ODI) has also launched a consultation on the regulations which govern the Right to Control Trailblazers. The closing date for responses is 19 May 2010.

• Employment and support allowance activities,descriptors and points

  Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:35:00 GMT

  New factsheet added.

• Have you claimed your winter fuel payment yet?

  Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:50:00 GMT

  The vast majority of those entitled to it received their Winter Fuel Payments before Christmas, but there are around 80,000 people who have still not claimed this money.

• The state of health care and adult social care

  Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:50:00 GMT

  This Care Quality Commission report aims to give a complete picture of health care and adult social care in England – including how well the two sectors work together.

• New handbook and cd rom available to order

  Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:30:00 GMT

  If you want to know which benefits you can claim and don't know your rights, the Disability Rights Handbook is the guide for you.

• Updates for our esa guide

  Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:25:00 GMT

  You can now download a 2010-2011 update for our Employment and Support Allowance Guide.

• Make a donation to disability alliance and pay nothing

  Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:55:00 GMT

  An easy way to raise money for Disability Alliance that does not involve parting with extra cash is to use “Give as you Live” to to search the web and shop on line.

• Tories plan worker's cooperatives for jobcentres

  Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:10:00 GMT

  Shadow Chancellor George Osborne has announced plans to give public sector workers the right to form employee owned co-operatives to take over the services they deliver.

• Guide dogs invites lord faulkner to walk blindfold on a ‘shared surface'

  Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:00:00 GMT

  Dr. Tom Pey, Guide Dogs' Director of External Affairs, has invited Lord Faulkner to “honour his pledge to take a blindfold walk in a shared surface area and experience for himself the stress and the anxiety that is posed when traffic and pedestrians are forced together.”

• Review of the armed forces compensation scheme

  Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:10:00 GMT

  This MOD review makes a number of recommendations including increases in lump sum payments, compensation for loss of promotion and a longer time in which to claim under the scheme.

• New social security advisory committee consultation

  Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:25:00 GMT

  The Committee has been asked to consider regulations which propose introducing personalised conditionality and support for claimants with a youngest child aged between 3 and 6 years as part of the progression to work pathfinders. The closing date for responses is 29 March 2010.

• Examining poverty, work sustainability and progression among low-skilled workers

  Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:25:00 GMT

  This Joseph Rowntree study examines low-skilled workers' experiences of work retention and progression; and offers suggestions for future policy on work sustainability.

• Accessing compensation: supporting people who need to trace employers' liability insurance

  Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:05:00 GMT

  This consultation document sets out the Government's proposals to improve support for people who need to trace Employers' Liability Insurance policies in order to obtain compensation for an accident or industrial disease sustained in the course of their employment in Great Britain (GB). The closing date for responses is 5 May 2010.

• Reinstatement of income support for disabled lone parents

  Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:30:00 GMT

  From 15th February 2010 an exercise will commence over a four week period, where DWP will contact all affected disabled lone parents, who were mistakenly taken off income support, advising them of the error and informing them of their options.

• Consultation on care quality commission assessments of quality 2010-11

  Tue, 2 Feb 2010 17:00:00 GMT

  This consultation looks at Care Quality Commission (CQC) proposals for assessing quality in 2010-11 and beyond. The closing date for responses is 27 April 2010.