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Community care for people with learning disabilities: specialist learning disabilities health services following resettlement
- Authors:
- BAILEY Nicola M., COOPER Sally-Ann
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 27(2), 1999, pp.64-69.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Describes the specialist learning disabilities health services provided by the NHS Trusts in England and Wales which have completed their resettlement programme. Comparisons showed that NHS Trusts which had completed the resettlement process had significantly fewer long stay placements and employed significantly fewer learning disabilities psychiatrists than did other NHS Trusts. However, similar numbers of other learning disabilities health professionals were employed by the two groups of NHS Trusts to work with people with learning disabilities in the community. This suggests that when institutions close, the development of community health services has not been accompanied by the increase in resources that one might have expected.