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Disability charity is ordered to pay £150,000 to disabled employee with long Covid​


AI Summary:
A disability charity, Shared Lives South West, has been ordered to pay £152,745 to William Drysdale-Wood after a tribunal found he was unfairly dismissed and discriminated against due to his disabilities.
Drysdale-Wood worked as a shared lives coordinator from September 2015 until his dismissal in September 2023.
He had Crohn’s disease and was later diagnosed with long Covid and chronic fatigue syndrome.
After periods of sickness absence and a phased return to work, he attended two capability meetings in September 2023.
He was dismissed the day after the second meeting on the grounds of ill health.
The tribunal ruled that the capability process was “remarkably brief” and did not allow him to demonstrate improvement.
The judge found the charity could have used less discriminatory measures, such as tolerating limited absences, instead of dismissal.
The dismissal contributed to a deterioration in his health.
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✍️ A short survey from our friends at ME Local Network! They are looking at the experience of people with chronic illness on using apps to manage or track symptoms. forms.gle...
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ThereForME 19. February

✍️ A short survey from our friends at ME Local Network! They are looking at the experience of people with chronic illness on using apps to manage or track symptoms.

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While I don’t see apps as what we primarily need I actually prefer screens and apps if they’re structured right because I can do things as and when I am able. I struggle more with realtime communication. But others vary. And I fear this survey won’t capture that variation. You also seem to have to sign in with google to complete it withiut any information on what data is gathered or what it will be used for.
 
Thanks @Trish
Although you need to sign in with a google account the survey says your email and google account info are not part of your response and not shared. There is a separate section to enter an email but this is optional. A shame all this info isn’t available before signing in but sharing here so people can read first and decide

This short questionnaire gathers experiences of people with chronic illness, using apps to help manage or track symptoms. We will produce a report about patient experience of using apps in order to promote more debate and awareness as these are being discussed widely in the NHS. Your responses will be anonymised and your email will not be used for anything further except to send you the report with the collated results if you wish. Please respond by 28th February to be included in the collated report.
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Edit: I completed it but you have to select options even if you don’t use apps, so answering irrelevant questions. It’s an oddly designed questionnaire and seems to assume you do use apps in some way. Maybe I’m being overly critical.
 
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hotblack said:
I hope they do something for those who can’t or choose not too so the report isn’t biased to app users and advocates.
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Yes, I hesitated to fill it in because the invitation seems to imply it's just for people currently using an app, which would tend to be people who think they are useful, or haven't been using them for long, so haven't necessarily realised how limited they are. I decided to do it because I wanted to make it clear not everyone finds them useful and point to the multiple problems I see with it and similar apps.
 
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