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A survey of learning disability inpatient services in Scotland in 2007
- Authors:
- PERERA Chanima, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 13(2), June 2009, pp.161-171.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Place of publication:
- London
A national review of learning disability services in Scotland, The Same As You? recommended that Health Boards should close all long stay beds by 2005 and reduce assessment and treatment places to specified levels. A psychiatry-led service planning study was carried out in 2007 to find out whether these recommendations had been met. The extent of delayed discharges was also investigated. All 15 Health Boards in Scotland responded and supplied the requested information. There were 388 adults with learning disabilities within inpatient services, 91 of whom were within forensic learning disability services. The age, gender, reasons for admission and length of stay are reported for this inpatient population. Recommendations are made for future recording of delayed discharges and the adequacy of the number of assessment and treatment inpatient places in Scotland is discussed.
Variation in rates of inpatient admission and lengths of stay experienced by adults with learning disabilities in England
- Author:
- MacDONALD Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 22(4), 2017, pp.218-221.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a commentary from a Scottish perspective on some of the issues raised in the paper “Variation in rates of inpatient admission and lengths of stay experienced by adults with learning disabilities in England”. Design/methodology/approach: The policy context in relation to people with learning disabilities in Scotland is reviewed, alongside an update about a current Scottish Government project focussed on understanding and addressing the issue of people with learning disabilities whose discharge from hospital is delayed. Findings: As regards to people with learning disabilities who are inpatients in hospitals in Scotland, there are similar themes in common with those in the paper by Elaine James and colleagues; however Scottish policy has developed differently from that in England in this area. Originality/value: This commentary adds to the discussion by contributing a Scottish perspective on issues and outlines work being done to address the need for people with learning disabilities and complex needs in Scotland to live within their local communities. (Publisher abstract)
No through road: people with learning disabilities in hospital
- Author:
- MENTAL WELFARE COMMISSION FOR SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 54
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Presents the findings from visits to 18 hospital units for people with learning disability, a review of records of 104 people, just over half the people in the Scottish service, and interviews and feedback from service users and carers. The report shows that there has been improvement in some of the areas where concerns had been previously raised. Three quarters of the care plans had all needs clearly addressed, and there was good access to and use of specialist assessment. Access to activities appeared to have improved, and only a few issues were found with regard to people’s legal rights being respected. However, the problem of delayed discharge, well-recognised as a strategic issue, remains. The proportion of patients who are experiencing delays in their discharge was 22 percent when visits were carried out in 2010 and on this visit was 32 percent. The report argues that this has serious implications for the people who remain in hospital when this is no longer the best place for them, and for those who in consequence may be unable to be admitted when they need to be, and is a human rights issue. (Edited publisher abstract)
The resettlement of people with learning difficulties from Scottish hospitals
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Integrate News, 67, December 1997, pp.7-9.
Describes an interim report of a study into resettlement of people with learning disabilities in Scotland which is being carried out by the University of Stirling's Social Work Research Centre.
Responding to the challenge? The voluntary sector and hospital closures
- Author:
- TITTERTON Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Care Report Scotland, 24, May 1995, pp.6-7.
Reports on how voluntary organisations are rising to the challenges presented by the closure of Scotland's long stay hospitals.
Deinstitutionalisation and community services in Greater Glasgow
- Author:
- DALRYMPLE John
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 4(1), January 1999, pp.13-23.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Knowledge of what makes for quality in adult learning disabilities services does not cascade directly down into grassroots practice. It is instead severely filtered and variously diluted through layers of national policy, local strategy and administrative complexity. In the current difficult climate, quality is not obtained without exposure to the strains and stresses inherent in the dynamics of the health and welfare bureaucracies and their attempts at partnership. Following a largely chronological and descriptive account of attempts to change and develop services in the Greater Glasgow area in the mid-1990s, consideration is given to the effect of these 'filters' in the context of the Greater Glasgow Joint Learning Disability Project.