Learning disabilities

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1. Top picks: Breaking down the barriers faced by people with learning disabilities

   • Learning disabilities
   • Learning disorders
   • (and 5 more)

     Tagged with:

     • Learning disabilities
     • Learning disorders
     • Accessibility
     • Communication
     • Health inequalities
     • Health Disparities
     • Top picks

   By Patient Safety Learning, 10 June

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   • 10 June

2. Voices for Safety podcast: Unequal cancer care for people with a learning disability in the UK (16 June 2026)

   • Health inequalities
   • Cancer
   • (and 1 more)

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     • Health inequalities
     • Cancer
     • Learning disabilities

   By Patient Safety Learning, 16 June

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   • 16 June

3. Learning Together - A review of the quality of care provided to adults with a learning disability who were admitted to hospital acutely unwell (NCEPOD, 11 June 2026)

   • Learning disorders
   • Emergency medicine
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Learning disorders
     • Emergency medicine
     • Learning disabilities
     • Admission
     • Recommendations

   By Patient Safety Learning, 16 June

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   • 16 June

4. Cervical screening for people with learning disabilities: Learning resource for sample takers (NHS Wessex Cancer Alliance)

   • Learning disabilities
   • Accessibility
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Learning disabilities
     • Accessibility
     • Cancer
     • Screening
     • Womens health

   By Patient Safety Learning, 21 January

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   • 21 January

5. Mental Health, Learning Disability Services and Mental Health Act Monitoring

   • Disability
   • Learning disabilities
   • (and 2 more)

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     • Disability
     • Learning disabilities
     • Mental health
     • Wales

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 1 December, 2025

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   • 1 December, 2025

6. LeDeR Annual Report 2023. Learning from lives and deaths: People with a Learning disability and autistic people (published September 2025)

   • Learning disorders
   • Learning disabilities
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Learning disorders
     • Learning disabilities
     • Autism
     • Data
     • Patient death

   By Patient Safety Learning, 3 September, 2025

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   • 3 September, 2025

7. NHS England: Guidance to support implementation of the Mental Capacity Act in acute trusts for adults with a learning disability (28 May 2025)

   • Learning disabilities
   • Learning disorders
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Learning disabilities
     • Learning disorders
     • Mental health
     • Mental health - adult
     • Legal issue

   By Patient Safety Learning, 5 June, 2025

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   • 5 June, 2025

8. Briefing Paper 13: National guidance on Learning from Deaths, and the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR) programme (29 July 2019)

   • Learning disabilities
   • Patient death
   • (and 2 more)

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     • Learning disabilities
     • Patient death
     • Organisational learning
     • Coroner

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 16 December, 2024

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   • 16 December, 2024

9. Six Lives progress report on healthcare for people with learning disabilities (2013)

   • Learning disabilities
   • Health inequalities
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Learning disabilities
     • Health inequalities
     • Health Disparities
     • Discrimination
     • Organisational culture

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 11 December, 2024

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   • 11 December, 2024

10. NHS England: How one Yorkshire Trust eliminated the elective care backlog for people with a learning disability

    • Learning disabilities
    • Health inequalities
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Learning disabilities
      • Health inequalities
      • Long waiting list

    By Patient Safety Learning, 8 December, 2024

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    • 8 December, 2024

11. Death by indifference Following up the Treat me right! report (Mencap, March 2007)

    • Disability

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 18 November, 2024

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    • 18 November, 2024

12. Healthcare for All: The Independent Inquiry into Access to Healthcare for People with Learning Disabilities (1 December 2008)

    • Learning disabilities
    • Health inequalities
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Learning disabilities
      • Health inequalities
      • Accessibility
      • Mental health
      • Organisation / service factors
      • Investigation

    By Patient Safety Learning, 9 October, 2024

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    • 9 October, 2024

13. Learning from deaths of children with a learning disability and autistic children (NCMD, 11 July 2024)

    • Children and Young People
    • Learning disabilities
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Children and Young People
      • Learning disabilities
      • Autism
      • Patient death
      • Audit
      • Organisational learning

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 29 August, 2024

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    • 29 August, 2024

14. Exploring the inequalities of women with learning disabilities deciding to attend and then accessing cervical and breast cancer screening, using the Social Ecological Model (18 March 2024)

    • Learning disabilities
    • Screening
    • (and 7 more)

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      • Learning disabilities
      • Screening
      • Womens health
      • Accessibility
      • Communication
      • Consent
      • Decision making
      • Health inequalities
      • Health Disparities

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 15 May, 2024

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    • 15 May, 2024

15. Clive: A Safeguarding Adults Review for Staffordshire and Stoke Safeguarding Adults Board and Cheshire East Safeguarding Adults Board (March 2024)

    • Learning disabilities
    • Social care
    • (and 5 more)

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      • Learning disabilities
      • Social care
      • System safety
      • Patient death
      • Speaking up
      • Transparency
      • Patient / family involvement

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 25 April, 2024

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    • 25 April, 2024

16. Nuffield Trust: Preventing people with a learning disability from dying too young (13 March 2024)

    • Learning disabilities
    • Health inequalities
    • (and 6 more)

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      • Learning disabilities
      • Health inequalities
      • Organisation / service factors
      • Patient death
      • Health Disparities
      • Healthcare
      • Social Care
      • Community care

    By Patient Safety Learning, 22 April, 2024

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    • 22 April, 2024

17. Video: The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism (29 June 2023)

    • Learning disabilities
    • Autism
    • (and 6 more)

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      • Learning disabilities
      • Autism
      • Health inequalities
      • Health Disparities
      • Communication
      • Patient engagement
      • Collaboration
      • Patient / family involvement

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 21 February, 2024

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    • 21 February, 2024

18. Common Ground - Trauma informed working with people with learning disabilities

    • Learning disabilities
    • Psychological safety
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Learning disabilities
      • Psychological safety
      • Mental health
      • Patient / family support

    By Patient Safety Learning, 18 January, 2024

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    • 18 January, 2024

19. A framework for the implementation of trauma informed care in residential and supported living services for adults with a learning disability (October 2022)

    • Learning disabilities
    • Psychological safety
    • (and 6 more)

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      • Learning disabilities
      • Psychological safety
      • Patient / family support
      • Person-centred care
      • Community care
      • Northern Ireland
      • Staff support
      • Adult

    By Sam, 16 January, 2024

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    • 16 January, 2024

20. Avoidable deaths of people with learning disabilities: The statistics that shame our civilised society (5 December 2023)

    • Patient death
    • Learning disabilities
    • (and 4 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Patient death
      • Learning disabilities
      • Investigation
      • Health inequalities
      • Health Disparities
      • Social care

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 21 December, 2023

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    • 21 December, 2023

21. 2022 LeDeR report into the avoidable deaths of people with learning disabilities (published November 2023)

    • Learning disabilities
    • Research
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Learning disabilities
      • Research
      • Patient death

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 5 December, 2023

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    • 5 December, 2023

22. Reducing harm from ligatures in mental health wards and wards for people with a learning disability (CQC, 21 November 2023)

    • Learning disabilities
    • Mental health

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 27 November, 2023

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    • 27 November, 2023

23. Being a child with intellectual disabilities in hospital: The need for an individualised approach to care (04 October 2023)

    • Learning disabilities
    • Disability
    • (and 3 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Learning disabilities
      • Disability
      • Hospital ward
      • Patient engagement
      • Accessibility

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 24 November, 2023

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    • 24 November, 2023

24. Pharmacists can do more to bridge the safety gaps for people with learning disabilities (19 October 2023)

    • Pharmacist
    • Learning disabilities
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Pharmacist
      • Learning disabilities
      • Medication
      • Communication
      • Patient engagement

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 16 November, 2023

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    • 16 November, 2023

25. Nicholas’s story: ‘I’ve been locked up for 10 years because I’m autistic. Is a chance at life too much to ask?’ (The Independent, 9 November 2023)

    • Learning disabilities
    • Autism
    • (and 5 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Learning disabilities
      • Autism
      • Restrictive practice
      • Organisation / service factors
      • Mental health
      • Patient suffering
      • Patient harmed

    By Patient Safety Learning, 10 November, 2023

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    • 780 views
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    • 10 November, 2023