Rob Greig has been appointed Chief Executive of the National Development Team

Rob Greig has been appointed Chief Executive of the National Development Team.

Rob will take up his appointment on the 19^th May 2008 in succession to Joan Maughan as Joan is retiring from full time work with the National Development Team but will become an Associate.

Rob Greig is currently the Government’s National Director: Learning Disabilities for England.

A healthy future: improving the healthcare experiences of people with intellectual disabilities and their families

Wednesday 16 April 2008
Venue: The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE

Improving the healthcare experiences of people with intellectual disabilities and their families.

Presentations and Speakers Include:


Mental capacity and implications for primary care practitioners
Professor Tony Holland, University of Cambridge

Unequal lives, unequal treatment? Promoting the human rights of people with learning disabilities: an agenda for change, opportunity and challenge
Dr Philippa Russell, Commissioner for Carers

Death by indifference
Beverly Dawkins and Jane Kemp

Quality out of inequality
Dr Graham Martin, General Practitioner, Nuneaton, Warwickshire


Educating health and social care practitioners through parents' experiences
LD Caring Solutions

People with learning disabilities' experiences of having mental health problems
Tuesday Group

Active lives
Bob Bilson, Regional development Manager, Special Olympics GB

Making health action plans a reality
Alison Pointu, Nurse Consultant, learning disabilities, Barnet PCT

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THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF ADULTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES

The Joint Committee on Human Rights published their Seventh report 'A Life Like Any Other? Human Rights of Adults with Learning Disabilities'

copies of the report can be downloaded from:

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt200708/jtselect/jtrights/40/40i.pdf

and the Easy-read version is also available at:

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt200708/jtselect/jtrights/40/40ieasyread.pdf

Further audio archives are also available on the Commttee's website:

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt/jtrights.htm