The 'criminal and inhuman' abuse of patients at the notorious Winterbourne View care home has led to the closure of the only NHS hospital specialising in learning disabilities. NHS England announced ...
The death of an autistic teenager who was given anti-psychotic medication by NHS staff against his and his parents’ wishes was “potentially avoidable”, a new independent review has concluded. The ...
Baby Lucas Morton, pictured with his parents June and Fraser, died after a series of failures at Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock nearly a decade ago A dad whose son died following a series of ...
Loss of NHS specialist nurses will lead to deaths of people with learning disabilities, experts warn
More hospital patients with learning disabilities will die if politicians do not tackle the “devastating collapse” in specialist nurse numbers, a leading charity and a union have warned. The number of ...
Almost half of doctors and a third of nurses said they had witnessed a patient with a learning disability being treated "with neglect or a lack of dignity or receiving poor quality care", according to ...
NHS staff with no professional qualifications will be given access to learning accounts, under plans announced by health secretary Patricia Hewitt. Announcing £60m funding to continue NHS learning ...
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