Learning Disability Today

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Alison Bloomer is Editor of Learning Disability Today. She has over 25 years of experience writing for medical journals and trade publications. Subjects include healthcare, pharmaceuticals, disability, insurance, stock market and emerging technologies. She is also a mother to a gorgeous 13-year-old boy who has a learning disability.

Health

Midwives lack specialist training for women with learning disabilities

Alison Bloomer Sep 23, 2024

New research shows that midwives are ill-prepared to care for women with learning disabilities due to lack of specialist training and resources.
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Carers

Families from minority groups face more suspicion when accessing social care support

Alison Bloomer Sep 19, 2024

A new report from the Disabled Children's Partnership shows that disabled children from minority groups face significant additional barriers to support due to their ethnicity.
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Debate

The Darzi report: what does it mean for people with a learning disability?

Alison Bloomer Sep 17, 2024

The independent Darzi report of NHS performance has concluded it is in a critical state with people with a learning disability particularly facing severe disparities and access to care.
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Education

Children with SEN five times more likely to be permanently excluded from school

Alison Bloomer Sep 10, 2024

New report finds children with SEN are five times more likely to be permanently excluded from school than their peers without SEN.
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Health

Huge postcode lottery for adult ADHD medication

Alison Bloomer Sep 9, 2024

A new national survey conducted by the University of Exeter found there was a huge variation in treatment and shared-care prescribing of ADHD medication for young adults.
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Autism

Quarter of disabled children fall out of benefits system in adulthood

Alison Bloomer Aug 21, 2024

A new report from the Resolution Foundation found that disabled children fall out of the disability benefits system as they approach adulthood.
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Health

Avoidable cancer deaths are higher for people with a learning disability

Alison Bloomer Aug 15, 2024

People with learning disabilities are missing out on lifesaving cancer treatment due to their cancer being found too late leading to avoidable cancer deaths.
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Carers

RCPCH refuse to withdraw ‘discriminatory’ guidance on fabricated or induced illness

Alison Bloomer Aug 12, 2024

Campaigners are disappointed that the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health refuse to withdraw its guidance on fabricated or induced illness by carers.
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Features

Dementia and learning disability: common conditions made complex

Alison Bloomer Jul 31, 2024

Dementia is a common health condition in people with a learning disability that can be made more complex due to diagnostic overshadowing, comorbidities, and other factors.
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Good practice and guidance

New report finds Care Quality Commission is ‘not fit for purpose’

Alison Bloomer Jul 26, 2024

The Care Quality Commission has been criticised in a new independent report that found failings in the institution that is supposed to identify and act on failings.
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