December 2014

A report of a Health Service Ombudsman investigation into a complaint that a GP practice which did not give a young man with severe learning disabilities, behavioural problems and epilepsy, the medication he needed on the grounds of cost,…
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The Government's response to the recommendations in the Confidential Inquiry into premature deaths of people with learning disabilities.
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A new learning disability strategy for Scotland.
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A report, from the Local Government Ombudsman, on a complaint about Essex Council's to carry out measures to safeguard the welfare of a vulnerable man, who suffered injuries at a care home it funded to look after him.
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A briefing paper, from the Prison Reform Trust, that looks at how health and justice services can respond to children with mental health problems and learning disabilities who offend.
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An overview of the results of the 2012 NHS Staff Survey.
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Murray Simpson, School of Education, Social Work and Community Education, University of Dundee. Murray has undertaken various pieces of work for social work agencies, including the development of risk protocols and reviews of day service…
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A report on a survey carried out by the Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales that gathered feedback on a plan to phase out the use of categories such as old age, dementia, mental infirmity and learning disability that are often…
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A consultation from the Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales.
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A report from the Royal College of Psychiatrists on the role of specialist mental health in-patient services for people with learning disabilities, commissioned as a result of the abuse scandal at Winterbourne View Hospital.
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