Northern Ireland Disability and Carers Group - comprises disabled parents/carers/academics/disabled people & allies/PA's/ and a few renegade OT's!
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It's happening here as well in Adult LD Daycentres, staff accessing private medical records @RobbieButlerMLA
PC inappropriately accessed police records 2,000 times bbc.in/3U50ytC
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As always of who looks after the carer focuses on money rather than the toll.
If you care about unpaid carers, think about the toll!
theguardian.com/society/2026…
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Older people are expected to outnumber children in Northern Ireland by next year in what has been pressed as a “wake-up call” for government.
The number of those aged 65 and over is also forecast to rise by 44.7% by 2049.
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🚨 NEW: An investigation by The Times has found the Government is paying sickness benefits to almost two million people without knowing whether they still qualify
It includes one claimant who has been been waiting 16 years to be reassessed
If they weren't registered to keep adults over night, why were they doing it in the first place? Now they're complaining as RQIA stepped in.
The families of over 150 people with learning disabilities have been left in limbo after a charity was told by regulators it must stop offering short breaks, The Irish News can reveal.
And the charity believes several other organisations across Northern Ireland that offer similar services could soon face similar difficulties.
Read more: tinyurl.com/4adpakep
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ADHD and autism at risk of over-diagnosis, says government review bbc.in/4yH9d4z
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Unpaid carers increasingly under strain and struggling to look after themselves, DHSC survey reveals communitycare.co.uk/content/…
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A health trust has been criticised for not allowing a teenager with the mental age of four to be cared for on a children's ward ahead of a major medical procedure.
bbc.in/4xVwwGD
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Carer at home investigated by BBC struck off for threatening elderly man bbc.in/3TrRi2c
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NHS staff suspected of 'snooping' on patient records will be immediately suspended and have their computer access cut off under new crackdown trib.al/fX8IGVh
The Trust's over here needs to start suspending daycare staff @RobbieButlerMLA
BREAKING: NHS staff face immediate suspension for 'snooping' on patient medical data
@ashishskynews reports ⬇️
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Need to do in in Northern Ireland too
NHS to suspend staff suspected of snooping on patient records bbc.in/4doaDbF
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NHS to suspend staff suspected of snooping on patient records bbc.in/4doaDbF
There's more at it than what you know, day are staff in LD daycentres accessing medical notes too @RobbieButlerMLA @BelTel @DianeDoddsMLA @paulfrew
As many as 13 workers at Northern Ireland health trusts have faced disciplinary action for unauthorised access to confidential patient records in the new digital system, it can be revealed. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…
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Martha’s rule: Families of people with a learning disability can now escalate concerns in A&E learningdisabilitytoday.co.u…
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Not enough people seem to be grasping that you can still be WORKING and receive universal credit.
You can still be WORKING and be entitled to PIP.
Many, many people want to work- the issue is that successive govts have hammered small businesses. Meaning pay has to be topped up. At the same time, nearly two decades of austerity have defunded the very interventions in early years that would stop people experiencing unemployment.
You can't gurn about "the benefits bill" and then cut the tripe out of the very employers expected to employ them whilst removing policy interventions on early years & support. Honestly, this place is a mess but the reasons why and how to fix it are not rocket science. Yet, here we are.
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The difficulties people face in accessing their GPs and the challenges practices deal with are expected to be laid out in a new report at Stormont on Tuesday.
The report by the Royal College of General Practitioners will put additional pressure on the health minister and the department.
GPs want reassurance on how they plan to safeguard the future of general practice.
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NHS 'unable to treat and look after' people with learning disabilities, says care commission chair
The NHS is failing people with learning disabilities and hospitals are “unable to sufficiently treat and look after” them, says Baroness Louise Casey, the head of the government’s commission into adult social care, as ITV News Investigations Editor @DanielHewittITV reports
itv.com/news/2026-09-17/case…
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The father of one of the patients who suffered abuse at a hospital for vulnerable adults has said he would like "urgency injected into the process" of implementing an inquiry's recommendations. bbc.in/4rhXyGo
Do you know who is accessing your hospital records on Encompass, are you aware none clinical staff have full access & are looking at disabled people's notes then calling staff meetings @BelTel @ICOnews @StephenNolan @UTVNews Trust's covering up for their own staff.