Developing a care pathway for people with learning disabilities at the end of life

What is it about?

The article discusses how collaborative working between palliative care staff and learning disability staff enabled the development of a pathway of care that led to people with learning disability having the same access to good care at end of life.

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Why is it important?

There is ample evidence from National enquiries that people with learning disabilities do not always have access to palliative care in the same way as the general population and this can be aligned to services working in isolation of each other without joined up process that enable services to work together.

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