Ahead of this week’s Budget (8th March), Disability Wales are supporting a UK wide call for the Government to reconsider planned cuts to the Work Related Activity Group (WRAG) of the disability benefit Employment Support Allowance (ESA), which will see new claimants lose out on £30-a-week, £1500 a year. Wales has a higher proportion of…
A new study suggests that almost half of people who experience a stroke suffer from fatigue in the early days of their recovery. Although stroke survivors have reported fatigue as a problem, previous estimates of the numbers of people affected have varied greatly – from one-quarter to almost three-quarters of stroke survivors. Published in the…
A GP has argued that Welsh health boards should be stripped of their responsibilities. HARRIS: 'Something has got to be done to relieve GPs from failing health boards' Bridgend GP Ian Harris made the call at last weekend’s Welsh LMCs conference. GPs at the conference agreed it should be taken as a ‘reference’ – advisory,…
