Blackburn and District Trades Union Council
Blackburn and District Trades Union Council
June’s Trades Council meeting considered ‘Modernising Support for Independent Living: the Health and Disability Green Paper’, which is essentially a consultation on Personal Independence Payments (PIP) criteria and assessments. The plans, if implemented, would potentially affect who qualifies for eligible for PIP and the type of help they might receive. The Green Paper was published…
Speaking at the Blackburn with Darwen Community Network Conference in May 2023, Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB Chief Executive Kevin Lavery used the example of A&E services to argue that the distribution and configuration of activities across the ICB footprint was not what they would be if NHS managers had a blank slate and could…