Background Children and young people (CYP) with learning disabilities (LD) are a
vulnerable population with increased risk of abuse and accidental injury and whose parents …

Introduction Despite evidence of health inequalities for adults with intellectual disability (ID)
there has yet to be a comprehensive review of how well hospital services are meeting the …

Background The need to review health service provision for children and young people
(CYP) with disabilities and their families in the United Kingdom has been expressed in …

Background In response to multiple United Kingdom investigations and inquiries into the
care of adults with learning disabilities, Mencap produced the Getting it Right Charter which …

Accessible summary• People with learning disabilities have more health needs than the
general population, and those health needs are different and require more specialised …

Background Children and young people with learning disabilities experience poor health
outcomes and lengthier hospital admissions than those without learning disabilities. No …

Children with intellectual disability experience significant challenges in accessing and
receiving high-quality healthcare leading to poorer health outcomes and negative patient …

Abstract Recently, the Children and Families Act 2014 was introduced in England to
regulate provision for children with disabilities. According to this policy, statements of special …

Objective To identify the factors that promote and compromise the implementation of
reasonably adjusted healthcare services for patients with intellectual disabilities in acute …

Accessible summary• We did twelve interviews all about the times people with learning
disabilities had been to hospital since March 2007. Some of them were with people with …