Friday, 23 June 2023

Vanishing point: When will targets about the number of people with learning disabilities and autistic people in inpatient units be met?

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 " Happiness is the target one only has to aim at in order to miss " John Cooper Clarke There are myriad ways to bring to light th...
Wednesday, 31 May 2023

Not giving a shit

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This is a quick post in response to the heartbreaking inquest for Sally Lewis, which George Julian has been assiduously reporting on in her ...
Sunday, 7 May 2023

How many people with learning disabilities are prescribed mental health medications? Numbers from the 'Health and Care of People with Learning Disabilities' dataset

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For over 30 years, it's been clear that huge numbers of people with learning disabilities in England (and in other places too) are presc...
Sunday, 23 October 2022

I am a 9.5 in 10 (with apologies to UB40): social care employment statistics and people with learning disabilities

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This blogpost is the third in a set looking at various aspects of the  social care statistics recently published by NHS Digital for 2021/22 ...

I got bills: Social care spending 2021/22 and people with learning disabilities

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NHS Digital have recently released their  annual tranche of statistics concerning social care for adults in England . This blogpost is the l...
Friday, 21 October 2022

The missing thousands - social care statistics 2021/22 and people with learning disabilities (1)

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NHS Digital have recently released their  annual tranche of statistics concerning social care for adults in England . This blogpost is the l...
Tuesday, 23 August 2022

Why don't NHS England want to know about over 1,000 people in inpatient services?

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NHS England are doing another consultation of changes they are making to the information they collect in the Assuring Transformation dataset...