Ensuring service users can access crucial information.

When people with learning disabilities use mainstream healthcare services, they are more likely to receive poor standards of care. They seldom attend screening programmes, often because they lack accessible information about them. This article describes how two learning disability nurses in NHS Lana...

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Publicado en:Learning Disability Practice Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 22 - 26
Autores principales: Howieson, Jean, Clarke, Karen
Formato: Journal Article
Publicado: Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom (The) Feb2013
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          Access to Information
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