Professionals: Useful Links
The Office for Disability Issues leads the government's vision of achieving equality for disabled people.
They guide government departments to find practical ways to involve and engage disabled people to meet departmental strategic objectives. They share their knowledge and experiences, and provide tailored advice.
National Back Exchange is a multidisciplinary group for those with an interest in backcare and prevention of work related musculoskeletal problems
The Royal College of Nursing represents nurses and nursing, promotes excellence in practice and shapes health policies.
Occupational therapists are health and social care professionals who help people of all ages carry out activities they need or want to do, but as a result of physical or mental illness, disability or being socially excluded, are prevented from doing.
The CSP is a member-led organisation governed by an elected Council. They provide a wide range of member services and campaign on behalf of physiotherapists and the physiotherapy profession.
The HSE is the national independent watchdog for work-related health, safety and illness. They are an independent regulator and act in the public interest to reduce work-related death and serious injury across Great Britain’s workplaces. The HSE have produced useful guidance: Movng and handling in Health and Social Care. The Department of Health (DH) exists to improve the health and wellbeing of people in England. The work of the Department of Health centres around three strategic objectives.• Better health and well-being for all:... and tackling health inequalities.• Better care for all: • Better value for all
The Equality and Human Rights Commission have a statutory remit to promote and monitor human rights; and to protect, enforce and promote equality across the nine "protected" grounds - age, disability, gender, race, religion and belief, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, sexual orientation and gender reassignment.
The Equality and Diversity Forum (EDF) is a network of national organisations committed to equal opportunities, social justice, good community relations, respect for human rights and an end to discrimination based on age, disability, gender and gender identity, race, religion or belief, and sexual orientation.
