1. Sam Yates: A love worth giving

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    April 8, 2015 by sharonbrennan

    A film producer recently got in touch with me – asking if I would help spread the word of a …
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    Category: Uncategorized

  2. Treasury intervention at Papworth prioritizes debt over saving lives‏

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    February 20, 2014 by sharonbrennan

    As a recent double-lung transplant patient I was shocked to read that Papworth hospital is under threat of closure from …
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    Category: Cameron, cardioothorasic, Care Quality Commission, CQC, Friends and Family test, harefield, Lansley, lewisham hospital, NHS reform, papworth, Peterborough City hospital, transplant

  3. Will new Government occupational health assessments result in benefit disqualification?

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    February 11, 2014 by sharonbrennan

    This week the Government announced the creation of a new Health and Work service. Once set-up, anyone off sick for …
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    Category: Atos, disqualification for misconduct, DWP, ESA, Health and work service, Universal Job match

  4. Are patients less deserving of good care if they don’t make a fuss?

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    January 27, 2014 by sharonbrennan

    Last week Professor David Haslam, the head of the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the body that …
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    Category: Haslam. NICE, health inequalities, NHS funding, NHS future, NHS standard of care, post code lottery

  5. My first Christmas with my new lungs

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    December 24, 2013 by sharonbrennan

    Tomorrow will be my first Christmas with my new lungs. I’ve been feeling very emotional in the run-up because of …
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    Category: Christmas, donor, future, gifts, love, organ donation, Slade

  6. Citizen journalists are the main target behind the Tories’ archive deletion

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    November 22, 2013 by sharonbrennan

    This week the Daily Politics show discussed whether the 2015 election will be the year that internet campaigning comes into …
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    Category: archive deletion, Cameron, citizen journalists, election 2015, Ian Duncan Smith, internet campaign, social media, twitter

  7. There but for the grace of my donor go I…..

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    November 13, 2013 by sharonbrennan

    Today Emma Jane Kingston should be celebrating her 21st birthday but she died earlier this summer from Cystic Fibrosis (CF). …
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    Category: betseybunny, CF, Cystic Fibrosis, Emma Jane Kingston, lung transplant, one in three die while waiting, organ donation, transplant

  8. New rule will leave ESA appellants without ANY income indefinitely

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    November 8, 2013 by sharonbrennan

    I’ve been away for a long time – basically being very ill. I’ll update you all on my personal travails …
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    Category: disability, ESA, IDS, JSA, mandatory reconsideration, poverty, sanctions, universal credit

  9. ESA cancer concession signals popularity contest for disability benefits

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    September 18, 2012 by sharonbrennan

    The news that the Government is softening its harsh approach to cancer patients claiming sickness benefits is a welcome relief. …
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    Category: Cameron, cancer, DLA, ESA, Ian Duncan Smith, PIP, WCA

  10. The myth of ‘overcoming’ will damage the legacy of the paralympics

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    September 10, 2012 by sharonbrennan

    Thanks to the Paralympics disability may suddenly have become mainstream, but while wider society may be openly talking about those …
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