People with learning disabilities still face unacceptable inequalities in healthcare

Far more needs to be done across health and care services to improve the treatment that people with learning disabilities receive.

Far more needs to be done across health and care services to improve the treatment that people with learning disabilities receive, Care and Support Minister, Norman Lamb made clear today.

Two new publications from the Department of Health, the responses to the Confidential Inquiry into premature deaths of people with learning disabilities and the Six Lives Progress Report on Healthcare for People with Learning Disabilities, show that whilst some improvements have been made, people with learning disabilities are still experiencing poor care, and face unacceptable inequalities in health and social care.

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