The number of GP practices in England fell from 7,686 in 2015 to 6,359 in 2025, while the number of homes rose by around 2m over the same period As a result, the number of homes served per average GP practice rose from 3,066 in 2015 to 3,976 in 2025.

Food insecurity is a “widespread, severe” issue for disabled people, with rising costs a “significant” challenge, according to evidence to an inquiry just as the govt released a report on disability benefit reform. #FoodPoverty #DisabilityPoverty www.disabilitynewsservice.com/food-insecur...

The Tory party is refusing to say who has been appointed to lead a “landmark” review of disability benefits or to provide any details of how they will engage with disabled people, more than 3 weeks after it was launched. #HelenWhately #Conservatives www.disabilitynewsservice.com/tories-refus...

Food insecurity is widespread, severe and systemic for disabled people, evidence to inquiry concludes #FoodPoverty #RightToFoodCampaign #DisabilityPoverty www.disabilitynewsservice.com/food-insecur...

Excellent statement from Inclusion London, calling out the narrative fed to the media, that the media ran with: www.inclusionlondon.org.uk/news/stateme...

The Timms Review has today published its interim report. We are concerned about what it does not say, and what will come next; we suspect the full report will propose cuts to PIP dressed up as being “in our best interest”. Read NSUN's full response: www.nsun.org.uk/news/not-in-...

Here is the DWP press release: www.gov.uk/government/n... Compare and contrast with the Timms Review report: www.gov.uk/government/p... Did any charity people quoted in the press release praising the DWP's "co-production" get to see this PR bait-and-switch before the press went out?

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 DR UK issues our statement on the Timms Review interim report, which was published today. "With the hostile political backdrop, Disabled people are fully justified in being concerned about the scope of the Review recommendations" In full👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/dr-uk-s...

If you are a #disability charity, you should really listen to your work & welfare advocates when they warn you that something is off with a DWP consultation or plan. If you don't, you can find yourself ignored, or worse, quoted praising its co-production while they rewrite the narrative behind you.

Tories refuse to release details of mysterious ‘landmark’ review of disability benefits #Conservatives #DisabilityBenefits www.disabilitynewsservice.com/tories-refus...

"Lived experience narratives are mobilised as proof that the system is listening, rather than evidence that it is not working." An anonymous NSUN member writes on the extraction, curation and management of lived experience voices. www.nsun.org.uk/lived-experi...

“A report by the Care Quality Commission described how its inspectors saw CCTV footage of staff kicking and hitting a patient during a restraint as their colleagues watched on.“ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NEW: A bipolar man's mental health was deteriorating. ChatGPT affirmed his religious delusions, telling him that he was Jesus Christ and that it was God, according to a new lawsuit. When the man became suicidal, ChatGPT told him: “You've made your choice." futurism.com/artificial-i...

BBC and Sky News fail to explain why presenters do not push back on claims of ‘spiralling welfare spending’ www.disabilitynewsservice.com/bbc-and-sky-...

13.4m Britons, including 4m children, live in poverty. 25.3m, including 14.9m working adults and 7.7m children, live below minimum income standard. Work doesn't pay enough, benefits are low, tax system is regressive. Can't banish poverty or get sustained economic growth without redistribution.

"When the richest person on the planet... spends his days and nights, even his own birthday, amplifying anti-migrant rhetoric, boosting far-right agitators, and promoting films that glorify vigilante violence as the answer to migration, he is not starting a debate – he is starting a fire."

We’re one of the signatories…

novaramedia.com/2026/06/23/c... Via @nsunnews.bsky.social

DNS is looking for examples from the last few months of broadcasters, particularly BBC News and Sky News, that have failed to challenge claims that spending on 'welfare' is spiralling out of control and needs to be cut. Examples with links to video would be most useful. Thank you!

A senior figure in the Department for Work and Pensions loudly “joked” about disability equality and reasonable adjustments as he waited to give evidence to a committee of MPs, Disability News Service can reveal. #DWP www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-director...

Purnell is one of the most vile DWP ministers this country has ever seen. He hates disabled people with a vengeance, & this bodes very badly for life under a Burnham government. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

i would argue it's not paranoia if someone is legitimately literally spying on you

“Oxevision is described by patients as “creepy” and a form of “spying”, and has been blamed by a bereaved mother for contributing to her daughter’s sense of paranoia before she took her own life” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Starmer's government cut incapacity benefit by half and hardly anybody is talking about it

Starmer, elected promising “change, instead decided to support a genocide, lock away those protesting against it, pander to the Far Right, & lay into disabled people, the elderly, trans people, & those on benefits. He won’t be missed, but will Burnham be more of the same but with a Northern accent?

Why is the DWP subjecting people with lifelong disabilities to inhumane reassessments for PIP? Charity Z2K reveals how bad the problem is... By @rachelcdailey.bsky.social

Hundreds of thousands of disabled people with lifelong conditions are being put through “pointless” benefit reassessments, contrary to official guidance. My exclusive in today’s paper: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"NSUN condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the Supreme Court’s dismantling of the legal safeguards that protect the liberty of hundreds of thousands of Disabled people." Read our full statement on the Supreme Court's reversal of Cheshire West. www.nsun.org.uk/news/nsun-co...

elon musk is such a shithead

Right now in the UK one of these things is classed as terrorism and the other is classed a protest.

Summary: Burnham is just another Centrist ableist arsehole but this time with a Northern accent

Access to Work scheme that supports those with disabilities or health conditions in overcoming barriers to work currently takes up to 37wks to process an application rather than its 25 day target, damaging peoples’ employment, income and health,and wellbeing. committees.parliament.uk/committee/12...

“Disabled people are being hurt, harmed and killed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) at a scale that overshadows every other scandal in British society in recent decades, MPs have been told.” www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-deaths-o...

ICYMI: In March we published ‘Not Just a Story’, a report into the experiences of people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress or trauma when engaging with the media. Read the report and findings via the link below. www.nsun.org.uk/resource/not...

Superb thread on govt plan to restrict the right to jury trial - examined by the Justice Committee of the House of Commons.

A lovely tribute to the brilliant Diana Rose www.madinamerica.com/2026/06/a-tr...

Nigel Farage gets away with weaponising murder to incite hatred & division because the media, ministers & political leaders are complicit in never holding him to account. It is deliberate, because they either agree with him or are too cowardly to confront him.

In this Telegraph article from just before the last General Election, Rishi Sunak promised to increase North Sea drilling and cut National Insurance. Exactly what Wes Streeting is now promising. But, sure, Labour represents change.

Guy who thinks workers shouldn’t be allowed to work from home hasn’t turned up for work in nearly 3 months. Gets his salary though, all at taxpayers’ expense, & gets away with it purely because he can, & because he’s always been a lazy grifting hypocrite www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/whe...

A force of nature and always spoke the truth to power. I met her once at Sheffield NHS Trust .. she ruffled a fair few feathers. Thinking of family and friends.

Diana Rose was a pioneer, fighting her way into a hostile academia, that resisted lived experience and working class voices, especially of women. Many people have opportunities now because of what she did. We honour her by continuing to fight.

*Announcement* It is with the greatest sadness we have been informed of the death of our dear friend, activist, researcher, a giant in MH Diana Rose. Our thoughts are with her family, her friends and everyone who knew her

Apart from this being a load of horse dollop, the most unbelievable part of this is that Question Time would ever platform Frida Kahlo, a Marxist, & Emmeline Pankhurst, who nowadays would be classed as a domestic terrorist from a proscribed terrorist movement www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Government Research: Harassment & victimisation of Disabled people means we need policies to help create a more inclusive society as a whole and not rely on reactive niche support services. Also Government: Let's cut their support even more... www.gov.uk/government/p...

Your regular reminder that PIP isn’t connected to whether you are working or not. inews.co.uk/news/politic...?

Yeah, let’s dig up Blairite multimillionaire scumbag Alan Milburn, who privatised large parts of the NHS before getting loads of money as an advisor to private healthcare providers, to tell us that young people get too much minimum wage & the best way to help them is to pay them less

Milburn- a man who has made a career of making people's lives worse. An abysmal excuse of a human being.

People living with life-limiting illnesses that will only get worse shouldn’t have to be put through repeated benefits reassessments. They add stress and paperwork at a time when people are already dealing with so much. It has to stop. 🛑 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

❗️People with terminal or lifelong conditions and disabilities shouldn’t have to keep proving they’re ill to get support. We're standing with @mariecurieuk.bsky.social and 30+ organisations to call on the government to change this, so people don't have to go through repeated stress and uncertainty.