Department of Health

Correspondence and papers arising from the Inter-Departmental Group on Disability (IDGD) set up by the Department of Health in 1994, and including Department of Health officials and representatives from other government departments, among them the Disability Unit of Nicholas Scott, M.P., Minister for Disabled People.

The venture led to the foundation of an IDGD Sub-Group on thalidomide, with the aim "to provide a forum for discussion of the problems faced by the thalidomide victims, and their families, in any of the following broad areas: health; social services; employment; education; access; prescribing of thalidomide by the medical profession; social security benefits; taxation of income from the Thalidomide Trust."

More concrete outcomes were a proposal to set up a National Centre for Thalidomide Disabled People at Roehampton, and a series of Section 64 grants that allowed the Thalidomide Society to explore the growing needs of its membership.

1994-2000

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