Other key policy areas/campaigns

NSF for Long-term Neurological Conditions

The National Service Framework (NSF) for Long-term Neurological Conditions was published in March 2005. The NSF is to be implemented over a ten-year time-scale. The MND Association is concerned that the NSF lacks teeth, as it contains no targets or timescales. It will be down to individual Primary Care Trusts and social services to implement it. For further information please click here

Mental Capacity Act 2005

The Mental Capacity Act governs decision-making on behalf of adults, where they lose the capacity to make or communciate a decision at some point in their lives or where the incapacitating condition has been present since birth. There are many parts to the Act. The MND Association are particularly interested in the proposals for Lasting Power of Attornies, living wills and the Draft Code of Practce. For further information please click here

Assisted Dying

There have been several attempts over recent years to try and get some form of Euthanasia/ Assisted Dying Bill introduced. The last was in early 2006 as a Private Members Bill by Lord Joffe. This was a Bill on Assisted Suicide that was defeated. Now Lord Joffe will have to try and reintroduce the Bill in this Parliament. How successful he is will depend on whether or not the Government will allow time for the Bill. For further information please click here

Benefit Provision

Disabled people often have difficulty accessing benefits that they are entitled to due to lack of knowledge, poor and inconsistent advise given and lack of information. For further information please click here.