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Disabled blue badge sign THE blue badge parking scheme will continue to ‘develop’ in order to ‘offer parity in its delivery’, according to Cheshire West and Chester Council. The authority has defended its record on the applications, after new data showed a ‘shocking disparity’ in the rate of approval for some kinds of disabilities. An investigation by the BBC Shared Data Unit revealed that of the 5,575 blue badge applications since August 2019 — when government rules on elig...

Figures show the difficulty in getting a Blue Badge for a hidden disability in Nottinghamshire Just four percent of Blue Badge approvals in the city were for people with non-visible disabilities 11:38, 12 JAN 2021 Updated A disabled parking bay in Angel Row Never miss another Nottinghamshire story by signing up to our free email updatesInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Yo...

Criticism over postcode lottery Blue Badge applications for invisible disabilities in North East People with non-visible disabilities are far less likely to have their application for a Blue Badge approved The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Get the latest North East news and updates delivered straight to your inbox Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your inform...

Parking Photo © Adrian Cable (cc-by-sa/2.0) THE blue badge parking scheme will continue to ‘develop’ in order to ‘offer parity in its delivery’, according to Cheshire West and Chester Council. The authority has defended its record on the applications, after new data showed a ‘shocking disparity’ in the rate of approval for some kinds of disabilities. An investigation by the BBC Shared Data Unit revealed that of the 5,575 blue badge applications since August 2019 — when gove...

People with non-visible disabilities or impairments face “shocking disparity” when applying for a blue badge parking...

Blue badge permit shocking disparity revealed © Getty Images People with non-visible disabilities such as autism or Parkinsons disease face a "shocking disparity" when applying for a blue badge parking permit, a BBC investigation has found. Scores of councils have lower approval rates for non-visible disabilities applications compared to those for physical impairments. Non-visible disability applications began in England in August 2019. The Department for Transport (DfT) said it would review...

THE coronavirus pandemic has had a devastating impact on a vast variety of services across the country. One vital service which has been badly affected is diagnostic scanning at Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. With NHS staff being stretched under pressure caused by height of the pandemic, scan appointments had to be cancelled and pushed back. This in turn caused waiting lists to swell and saw waiting times extended by months. According to NHS England sta...

THE coronavirus pandemic has had a devastating impact on a vast variety of services across the country. One vital service which has been badly affected is diagnostic scanning at Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. With NHS staff being stretched under pressure caused by height of the pandemic, scan appointments had to be cancelled and pushed back. This in turn caused waiting lists to swell and saw waiting times extended by months. According to NHS England sta...

Office for National Statistics figures show there are an estimated 34,841 households with children in Northumberland. If every one of those left him a standard 50ml glass of sherry, old Kris Kringle will make his way through an average of 29,345 units of alcohol as he travels around the nation’s homes. Santas sherry drinking in statistics, showing how much booze he will consume as he makes his deliveries to children across England alone. That’s based on the average 17% strength of more than...

Thousands of people in Essex missed out on potentially life-saving scans when non-Covid NHS services ground to a halt during the pandemic. Analysis of official figures by the BBC Shared Data Unit has found that at least 136,970 fewer diagnostic imaging scans were carried out across the area between April and September this year, compared to the same period in 2019. However, as figures are only available for two of the five NHS trusts in Essex and exclude private hospitals, the true number...