Recent press highlights
Click the links below to view a selection of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign's recent key online coverage.
- 27 August 2010
Daily Mirror - EasyJet bar wheelchair woman as health hazard The Daily Mirror cover the Trailblazers tourism report with a story on air travel problems. - 27 August 2010
Newsnight - GP NHS commissioning "disastrous" Newsnight cover GP commissioning concerns highlighted by the patients' survey State of the Nation. - 27 August 2010
The Guardian - EasyJet taken to task over wheelchair policy The Guardian covers the Trailblazers tourism report which uncovered problems with air travel. - 7 July 2010
BBC Online - Droitwich boy tells MPs about his muscular illness Murray Field, 12, meets a panel of MPs at Westminster to tell them how muscle disease services in the West Midlands affect his life. - 14 June 2010
Muscular dystrophy patient highlights gap in NHS care Steve Ledbrook from Weston talks to BBC Somerset about the problems muscle disease patients face in moving from child to adult services. - 7 April 2010
Care advisors to fight muscle disease - SEN Magazine SEN Magazine's coverage of the news that 19 care advisor posts have been either created or newly funded across the UK. - 25 March 2010
Disability barrier for jobseekers in Somerset - BBC Somerset Online BBC Somerset's online coverage of the launch of Trailblazers' investigation into employment and disability discrimination. - 10 March 2010
Southern health chiefs vow to improve muscular services - BBC Online South Central health bosses agree to improve muscle disease services in the region after the All Party Parliamentary Group on Muscular Dystrophy's March meeting with specialised commissioners. - 9 March 2010
Help my son to live longer - Viking FM An East Yorkshire mum travels to Parliament to demand health bosses improve services for her son and others like him. - 19 February 2010
Swansea family's battle to get physio care for son, 6 - Swansea Evening Post The Swansea Evening Post follow up coverage of our Welsh CPG meeting last month with a feature on Jack Price, 6, and the lack of care he receives.
