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14 July 2010
Mencap launches Mencap Direct
Learning disability charity, Mencap, has today announced the launch of a new national telephone service - Mencap Direct 0300 333 11 11. This is a new service which makes it easy for people with a learning disability, and those who support them, to find and buy the services they need from Mencap.
12 July 2010
Basildon hospital found to have failed patient with a learning disability
Basildon University Hospital has been found guilty of numerous failures in the medical care and treatment of Lisa Sharpe, who had a severe learning disability.
6 July 2010
Judicial review of Health Ombudsman decision-making process granted
Mencap's response to the decision taken today by the court of Appeal to grant a review of the way decisions are made by the Health Ombudsman when doctors have failed to make reasonable adjustments under the Disability Discrimination Act.
29 June 2010
Statement in response to improvements made at Basildon and Tameside hospitals
Mencap's response to the Care Quality Commission's announcements today that both Basildon and Thurrock NHS Trust and Tameside NHS Foundation Trust have made the necessary improvements for conditions on their registration to be lifted.
23 June 2010
Mencap responds to the Budget
The Budget includes new medical assessments for people applying for Disability Living Allowance. Mencap responds.
21 June 2010
Mencap launches Getting it right
Almost half of doctors (46%) and a third of nurses (37%) say that people with a learning disability receive a poorer standard of healthcare than the rest of the population, according to a survey published today by learning disability charity Mencap to launch its new campaign, Getting it right.
8 June 2010
Basildon & Thurrock Hospital fined
Basildon and Thurrock Hospital has been fined £50,000 for health and safety failings which were a "significant cause" of the death of a patient with profound and multiple learning disabilities.
2 June 2010
Mencap gets serious about sport
Serious about sport, the annual sporting event in South London held by learning disability charity Mencap and Special Olympics Great Britain, takes place at Battersea Park on Sunday 6 June from 10am.
26 May 2010
Response to Court order for cancer patient with a learning disability
David Congdon, Mencap's head of campaigns and policy said: "We believe that people with a learning disability have the same right to treatment or to refuse treatment as anyone else."
24 May 2010
Ofcom backtracks on flawed 'retard' ruling
Learning disability charity Mencap welcomes Ofcom's ruling today that Channel 4 breached the Broadcasting Code by broadcasting the word 'retard' on Big Brother's Big Mouth.
