NATIONAL PATIENT SAFETY AGENCY
المؤلف:
DEBRA FEARNS, JACKIE KELLY, PAUL MALORET, MALCOLM McIVER AND TRACEY-JO SIMPSON
المصدر:
Caring for People with Learning Disabilities
الجزء والصفحة:
P118-C7
2025-10-18
242
NATIONAL PATIENT SAFETY AGENCY
The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has, in recent times, published its report outlining key patient safety issues in relation to the quality of care of adults with learning disabilities in a number of areas, including physical restraint (NPSA 2004). The focus of this section concerns the ‘vulnerability of people with learning disabilities in general hospitals’. One of the problems it highlights concerns the ‘degree of harm’ that adults with learning disabilities may come across as patients in a general hospital. It reports that 26 per cent of adults with learning disabilities are admitted to hospital every year. This compares with 14 per cent in the general population (Band 1998). The NPSA states that a number of concerns were raised, including:
• communication difficulties;
• inadequate training in specific health concerns;
• additional health conditions, such as epilepsy and not being recognized in general hospitals;
• reliance on carers and learning disability professionals to carry out full nursing care;
• consent being sought from the carer, and not the persons themselves.
(NPSA 2004)
These are worrying issues and, coupled with a lack of accessible information and illnesses either misdiagnosed or undiagnosed, highlight the work that still needs to be done to improve how health professionals interact with adults with learning disabilities. The NPSA can voice its concerns at a national level and promote the issues affecting adults with learning disabilities in accessing secondary care.
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