'Distressing failures' in NHS care for people with learning disabilities

By Helen Crump2009-04-02T11:37:00

Quality of care in the NHS and social services for people with learning disabilities is "at best patchy and at worst an indictment of our society"

A report into the deaths of six people with learning disabilities has uncovered “significant and distressing” failures in services across health and social care.

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