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At last night's meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on learning disability, I got the chance to ask Sir Jonathan Michaels a question about his report on the health of people with learning disabilities.

His report, the Independent Inquiry into access to healthcare for people with learning disabilities had been prompted by a Mencap campaign, spearheaded by the publication of Death by Indifference, detailing a shocking and unnecessary loss of life. Deaths that bring a greater pain to any of us who have known people die unnecessarily when you add the guilt about whether you could have done anything more to prevent it.

Read the complete post at http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-care-experts-blog/2008/12/health.html


Posted 10 Dec 2008 11:36 AM by The Social Care Experts Blog | Report Abuse
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