NHS England: Transforming care for people with learning disabilities, autism or both

Summary

This next steps progress report from NHS England outlines a programme of system-wide change to improve care for people with learning disabilities, autism or both and behaviour that challenges (learning disabilities).

Content

Led jointly by NHS England, the Association of Adult Social Services (ADASS), the Care Quality Commission (CQC), Local Government Association (LGA), Health Education England (HEE) and the Department of Health (DH), the Transforming Care programme focuses on the five key areas:

• empowering individuals
• right care, right place
• workforce
• regulation
• data.