Changes in the attitudes of GPs to the health screening of patients with learning disabilities.
GPs appear reluctant to undertake health screening for people with learning disabilities. This article describes a specialist health screening service delivered mainly by community learning disability nurses to nearly 600 children and adults. Prior to the service being established, 141 GPs within a...
| Published in: | Journal of Learning Disabilities (14690047) Vol. 6; no. 4; pp. 373 - 385 |
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Sage Publications, Ltd.
Dec2002
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