DWP to rethink heart failure and other cardiac conditions are disability's

Rejected 20 signatures

What the petition asks

cardiac conditions such as heart failure, cardiac arrest, heart attacks kill more than 73,000 people in the UK each year. About 1 in 6 men and 1 in 10 women die from CHD. In the UK, there are an estimated 2.3 million people living with CHD and around 2 million people affected by angina

Key facts & figures

Coronary Heart Disease remains the number 1 killer in the UK.

Deaths In the UK every year

160,000 people die from heart and circulatory disease.
73,000 people die from coronary heart disease (CHD).
40,000 people died from a stroke.
42,000 people died prematurely from cardiovascular disease (CVD).
1.2 million men and 900,000 are living with chronic angina
800,000 are living with heart failure
1.6 million men and 1 million women are living with coronary heart disease

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

We're not sure what action you would like the UK Government or Parliament to take.

You could start a new petition calling on the Government to recognise heart failure and other cardiac conditions as disabilities, for the purposes of working out who is entitled to disability benefits.

Timeline

13 Apr 2016	Petition opened for signatures
25 Apr 2016	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 20

Status Rejected

Rejected 25 Apr 2016

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