This book provides a unique insight into the challenges faced by people with learning disabilities trying to access mainstream health and social services and by the professionals who are trying to provide them. The combination of professional perspectives and viewpoints of people with learning disabilities themselves creates an authoritative explanation of why this group of people face the barriers they do. The contributors critique these barriers and also offer potential solutions to overcoming them.
Chapter 2 A review and critique
Martin Bollard
Chapter 3 The legacy of ?Valuing People? in England
John Turnbull
Chapter 4 Policy in Scotland: implementing the ?Same as You?
Michael Brown
Chapter 5
Will ?Equal Lives? be achieved in Northern Ireland?
Owen Barr
Chapter 6 Intellectual disability with mental health problems
Dave Ferguson
Chapter 7 Let?s be patient: hospital admissions
Rick Robson and Ricky Owens.
Chapter 8 Primary Care and intellectual disability
Susan Brady and Martin Bollard
Chapter 9 Looks like leisure?
Nick Fripp and Steve Day
Chapter 10
Getting into employment
Sarah Maguire
Chapter 11 Accessing further education
Jackie Martin
Chapter 12 Equal rights to housing
Steven Rose
Chapter 13 Ethnicity and intellectual disability
Raghu Ragahvan
Chapter 14 Service Users? involvement in higher education
John Lahiff
Chapter 15 Communication
Louise Talbott and Jane Parr