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The United Nations Enable Newsletter is prepared by the Secretariat for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (DSPD/DESA) with input from UN offices, agencies, funds and programmes, as well as from civil society organizations, including organizations of persons with disabilities. It is also available online at: www.un.org/disabilities. In this issue: - Status of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) - Highlights from the UN system - Upcoming calendar of events - Other news STATUS OF THE CRPD 130ratifications and 155 signatories to the CRPD 76ratifications and 91 signatories to its Optional Protocol (OP) 6th Session of the Conference of States Parties to the CRPD The 6th session of the Conference of States Parties (COSP6) will be held from 17to19 July 2013. The theme for this session is: “Ensuring adequate standard of living: empowerment and participation of persons with disabilities within the framework of the CRPD”. The su...

This is an example of things to come in the NHS - ever-increasing encouragement of private services. Mental health and the market | Primary Care Commissioning : 'via Blog this'

This is the form GPs have been told to use for PIP assessments' reports. For each completed form the GP will get £33. Your Report Patient’s name & National Insurance Number Date when patient last seen by a health professional / / Where and by whom Notes: Please record relevant information based on your knowledge of the patient and their medical records. Please write down facts rather than opinion. We require an objective report - please only include information about symptoms that are recorded in the patient’s records and information about disabling effects that you or another healthcare professional have directly observed. It may be helpful to your patient to enclose any relevant correspondence contained in their file – for example, recent consultant letters or letters from a Community Mental Health Team. Please ensure that any third party information is removed. Third party information is any sensitive information that refers to someone other than t...

Labour’s deputy leader and health spokesman in the Lords, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, tabled the so-called ‘fatal motion’ to annul the regulations which will be debated on 24 April. Lord Hunt told GP while it was rare to table a ‘fatal motion’, he believed opposition to the regulations could build a momentum in the coming weeks. He called DH’s defence of the regulations in response to critical legal opinion ‘disingenuous’ as it ‘ignored the new context in which the NHS is being run’. He said section 75 would force all NHS services out to tender and that, alongside wider health reforms including ‘any qualified provider’, there was convincing evidence that a market was being developed for health services. Speaking to GP, he said: ‘If you look at these regulations, it’s absolutely clear that the only defence for not putting services out to tender is if only a single provider could provide those services. The DH thinks you could use that as a reason to not tender for services. But the ...

Wednesday 10.4.2013 Survivors History Group 1pm Together On of the themes developing within the survivor movement and within the survivor history group is a discussion of the positive and critical contribution that people who suffer mental distress make, individually and collectively, to thought and culture. Just a few examples. Until 25.5.2013 Hackney Museum has an exhibition "Responses to mental health in Hackney", which features the creative work of those who use the "Core Arts" project in Hackney. Friends of David Kessel are putting together a tribute to his unconventional thought. This includes the idea of humane therapy, including humane asylums, and the idea that schizophrenia is a real lived experience that has something essential to contribute. Sheila Beskine breaks us away from our planned routines with visual and tactile images and experiences, such as passing autumn leaves or ship's barnacles around for us to feel and think about....