Joint letter to the Chancellor ahead of the Autumn Statement
- Health inequalities
We are deeply concerned about the impact the cost of living crisis is having and will have on people living with ill health and disability, and their carers. These risks are particularly acute for groups who already experience health inequalities.
The letter puts three main asks to the Chancellor:
- Commit to invest in urgent targeted support for those at the sharpest end of the cost of living crisis.
- Invest more in targeted support for disabled people and people living with ill health affected by the cost of living crisis.
- To ensure health and care services are fully funded, allowing all our health and care needs to be met.
The organisations who signed the letter are as follows:
Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis
Addison’s Disease Self Help Group
Alex, The Leukodystrophy Charity
Arthritis Action
Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance
Behçet’s UK
Birthrights
Borderline Support UK CIC
British Dupuytren’s Society
British Geriatrics Society
British Heart Foundation
British Medical Association
Children’s Liver Disease Foundation
Covid Aid
Crohn’s & Colitis UK
Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome Association UK
Diabetes UK
Dystonia UK
Endometriosis UK
Epilepsy Action
FND Hope
Friends and Families – Empowering Families with Disabled Children
Furness Mental Health Trust (FMHT)
Future Care Capital
Groundswell
Guillain-Barré & Associated Inflammatory Neuropathies
Help2Change CIC
Hounslow Borough Respiratory Support Group
ICUsteps Peer Support Charity
Independent Age
Kidney Care UK
Long Covid Kids
Long Covid SOS
Long Covid Support
LUPUS UK
Lymphoedema Support Network
Marie Curie
Mind
MS Society
National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS)
National Survivor User Network
Out with Prostate Cancer
Pain UK CIO
Parkinson’s UK
Positively_UK
Prostate Cancer UK
Pseudomyxoma Survivor
Rare Autoinflammatory Conditions’ Community-UK (RACC-UK)
Rethink Mental Illness
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Shine Cancer Support
Shopmobility South Gloucestershire
Stripy Lightbulb CIC
Sue Ryder
The Hibbs Lupus Trust
The Neurological Alliance
The Point of Care Foundation
The Thyroid Trust
Thyroid UK
Time to Talk Mental Health UK
Turning Point
United Kingdom Acquired Brain Injury Forum
VoiceAbility
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