The hospital’s learning disability liaison nurse – this role exists in many hospitals. Another useful source of information is the hospital passport, which the patient may already have. It will ...

Hospital passports are written about a lot in the learning disability field, so this is a blog that I wasn’t going to write. However, three potentially serious incidents in the last three months has ...

On average, people with learning disabilities and multiple health conditions stay in hospital for three days and stays ...

An app to replace paper hospital passports has been created ... said the aim was for it to be "easy and accessible". Saoirse Read, learning disability and autism consultant, said there were ...

Stephen Andrade-Martinez, who has learning disabilities and autism, is 23. He has already spent almost six years living in inpatient wards – a quarter of his life. One of the placements was 80 ...