People with a learning disability and autistic people will receive better and more focused community care as part of plans to reduce the number in specialist inpatient care. The Building the Right ...

Lord Paul Scriven, a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords, has spent years championing the rights of learning ...

NHS England must do more to meet the needs of people with learning disabilities when they are treated in hospital, the patient safety body said. The Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) ...

A campaigner has said residential care for adults with learning disabilities needs an "overhaul" after a review that identified failings in the current provision. Fran Tinkler of Manx Mencap said a ...

NHS England says plan will lead to ‘radical’ change of services but experts question report’s lack of ‘concrete actions’ The latest plan to end inappropriate learning disability hospital placements ...

Pioneering cancer charity Marie Curie has called on the expertise of world-leading learning disability and palliative care expert at Kingston University and St George's, University of London Professor ...

Carys Banks received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). She was the 2016 recipient of the Radcliffe Brown/Sutasoma award from the Royal Anthropological Institute. For some ...

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While epilepsy affects one percent of the general population, this figure rises to 22.2% for people with learning disabilities. The researchers analysed nearly 10,000 deaths of adults with ...

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has announced a significant expansion of its acute learning disabilities team, with recruitment already under way for more clinicians, support workers, and administrative ...