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Top Gear’s mobility scooter jape: please don’t try this at home
Last night – or six months hence if you watch it on Dave! – Top Gear’s terrible trio turned their attention to mobility scooters. This was not, of course, about the mundanities of everyday life, of using a scooter to go to the shops and enjoy some independence. No, this being Clarkson and Co. this [...]
Motability changes – it’s not so bad after all!
Helen Dolphin, Director of Campaigns and Policy at Disabled Motoring UK, reports on new revisions to the Motability scheme for disabled drivers. When the changes to the Motability scheme were first announced in December I, like many disabled drivers, was left wondering if this was a scheme that would still work for [...]
Watchdog slams travel insurers over medical condition ‘get out’ clauses
Fish Insurance’s sales and marketing director Warren Dickson warns disabled travellers to make sure they’re still covered should they be diagnosed with a new medical condition. Consumer complaints about travel insurance firms refusing to cover or demanding increased premiums for newly diagnosed medical conditions have nearly doubled in the past three years. Trade magazine Insurance [...]
Independent Living Insurance: How well protected are you?
The importance of those employing their own personal assistants having effective employment insurance in place has been brought into sharp focus by a recent case in which a Direct Payment employer had omitted to obtain any insurance and found himself facing legal action from an employee. Sometimes working relationships become strained and for employers who [...]
Mobility scooters: Buyer beware
Thinking of buying a mobility scooter for Christmas? Then buy with care advises Helen Dolphin, Director of Campaigns and Policy at Disabled Motoring UK, the national campaigning charity for disabled motorists and Blue Badge holders. The number of mobility scooter users in the UK is ever increasing and the number of places you can buy [...]
Insurance for care sector providers
Wherever you look in the care arena demands are being placed upon people to cut costs or generate revenue – or both. The ‘big society’ ideology is promoting the idea of volunteers taking on what have previously been state-funded roles. Services are being reduced, cut or outsourced. Whether you or I agree on these measures [...]
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