Death by Indifference

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Death by Indifference

• This is a report that mencap did.
• It shows why they feel that a lot of medical
  people treat people with learning disabilities
  badly.

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What mencap did

• Mencap feels that some people with learning
  disabilities died because of this treatment.
• Mencap talked about 6 people with learning
  disabilities who died.

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• Mencap feels the health service could have done a
  lot more to stop these people from dying.

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Mencap wanted these things to happen

• somebody independent (not working in Health) to
  look at all 6 cases.

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Mencap wanted these things to happen

• The Health Service to look into complaints better.

Complaints
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Mencap wanted these things to happen

• An inquiry into premature deaths for adults with
  learning disabilities.
• (an inquiry is when a group of people look into
  what happened)
• (premature is when somebody dies younger that we
  expect)

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The inquiry
?

• This would help us understand how many people die
  and why some die early

Inquiry
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Healthcare for All

• Mencap set up a group of people to find out how
  good healthcare is for people with learning
  disabilities.
• They found out a lot of things.

Findings
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Healthcare for All

• Lots of people working in healthcare dont know
  enough about people with learning disabilities
• People in healthcare dont treat people with
  learning disabilities like everybody else.

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Healthcare for All

• People in the Health Service dont always listen
  to Parents and Carers

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What Mencap hopes will happen

• People with learning disabilities will have a
  health check every year

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What Mencap hopes will happen

• They have help if they have to go to the hospital

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What Mencap hopes will happen

• They get help if they find it hard to communicate

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What Mencap hopes will happen

• People get better information from health services

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