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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