May 2016

The Dallaglio Foundation, the charity founded by England Rugby legend Lawrence Dallaglio OBE, has teamed up with mental healthcare and education specialists Priory Group to help young people with autism, Asperger’s and behavioural,…
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People from certain groups in society – including those with mental ill health or learning disabilities – are experiencing poorer quality care at the end of their lives than others because providers and commissioners do not always…
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Learning disability charity Mencap is calling for dating website OkCupid to remove a deeply offensive question and apologise to people with a learning disability for the offence caused.
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MPs have called on the government to put in place measures to improve diagnosis times for autism and support a public awareness campaign to help the UK become more autism-friendly.
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In this guest blog, Simon Cramp says the latest Care Quality Commission report on Southern Health shows how lessons from past mistakes have not been learnt – and that this has to stop.
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Patients at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust are safe, although there is much work the trust needs to do to improve standards, Minister for Community and Social Care, Alastair Burt, has said.
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