Tag Archives: learning disability

What do we already know about Integrating Health and Social Care?

Posted on 3 February, 2015 by eljubilado

The Socialist Health Association has just published this piece on their blog.  It is a response to recent discussions on the integration of health and social care based on my long term experience of developing and managing such integration. Read … Continue reading →

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What is most important? Reflections on support arrangements for people who are intellectually disabled.

Posted on 26 November, 2014 by eljubilado

Today, 26th November, 2014, something unusual has happened.  The national news of the day includes quite a lot of coverage of the abject failure of the health and social care system, and the government, to do what it was supposed … Continue reading →

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1,800 preventable deaths per year

Posted on 25 March, 2013 by eljubilado

The Confidential Inquiry into premature deaths of people with learning disabilities has just reported its findings.  Extrapolated, they indicate 1,839 excess deaths per year of intellectually disabled people aged 4 and up, in England and Wales.   Here are my workings:  … Continue reading →

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