Campaign news
West Midlands:
- 15 November 2011
Family wins care battle Lynn and Paul Leadbitter are overjoyed that their son Matthew was yesterday able to come home after months of living in a residential care home following his recent tracheotomy. - 30 August 2011
Cabinet Minister lends muscle to local campaign Cabinet Minister, Rt Hon Caroline Spelman MP, supported the campaign for local service improvements at a West Midlands Muscle Group meeting last week. - 17 May 2011
Have your say in our hospital survey To fight for further investment in specialist neuromuscular services we really need your help, by filling in our new survey, so that we can gather evidence regarding the care that you or someone close to you receives in hospital. - 11 May 2011
NHS wastes £31 million a year The Muscular Dystrophy Campaign’s Invest to Save report, launched in Parliament today, reveals that the NHS is wasting £31 million each year on unplanned emergency admissions to hospital for muscle disease patients. - 25 August 2010
Survey reveals shocking lack of specialist care for people living with muscle disease The Muscular Dystrophy Campaign has published a shocking report today, following a national patients’ survey, which reveals an alarming lack of specialist multi-disciplinary care for people living with muscle disease. - 13 July 2010
NHS reforms may have devastating impact on rare conditions The Muscular Dystrophy Campaign has expressed serious concerns about the Health Secretary Andrew Lansley's new-model NHS described in yesterday’s White Paper, raising fears that it will put people with rare conditions at risk. - 6 July 2010
Video: Families living with muscle disease take fight to Parliament Families from across the country were on the panel at today's All Party Parliamentary Group for Muscular Dystrophy meeting to tell them why they desperately need neuromuscular services to improve in their area. - 6 July 2010
APPG shocked that London is only region not reviewing neuromuscular services The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Muscular Dystrophy, meeting today in Parliament, expressed its shock that London is now the only English region not conducting a review of neuromuscular services. - 29 June 2010
Health Minister forced to accept failings in Wheelchair Services Health Minister Paul Burstow MP was forced to accept widespread failings and inefficiencies in the commissioning and delivery of wheelchair services in a House of Commons debate last night secured by Dave Anderson MP. - 25 June 2010
Victory in Local Housing Allowance Campaign Following many months of campaigning by the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign and other disability groups, the Local Housing Allowance, which has replaced Housing Benefit for new claimants, will now pay for an extra room for a live-in carer.
