Disabled people are now forced into nursing homes thanks to government failings

Severely disabled people including those with spinal cord injuries are suffering due to problems accessing support through the NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) scheme. It is also due to the Conservative Party’s axing of the Independent Living Fund (ILF) in 2015 – which at the time supported around 18,000 disabled people. All this leads to people with complex needs being dumped into care homes…

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