15 Times More ‘Disabled’ People than Doctors and Nurses in UK

Fresh figures from the Department for Work and Pensions reveals a staggering rise in disability claims. For the first time, a quarter of the British people say they have a disability with “substantial” and “long-term” effects on daily life. That’s 16.8 million people claiming to be disabled, with about 5.8 million of which say they have a mental health problem so severe it counts as a disability.[…] Read the rest