News from BIHR BIHR Evidence to the JCHR Inquiry Throughout July, we were busy gathering evidence through our Communities of Practice platform, surveys and our direct work across the UK. Our policy responses are directly informed by people’s real-life experiences of the issues, drawn from our work to support people to benefit from their human rights in their daily experiences. To focus our work, we collected evidence from three groups we work with: People accessing (or trying to access) health and care; Staff working in health and care during Covid-19; and Advocates and campaigners We are very excited to have last week published our full reports on the impact of the Government’s response to the Covid-19 for people with care and support needs, with easy read versions of all three reports available too. They make for worrying reading, shining a spotlight on the realities of Covid-19 focussed changes to law, policy and access to care and treatment for...

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