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Mencap responds to the Government's 2020 Adult Social Care Winter Plan
Today, the Department of Health and Social Care published its 2020 Adult Social Care Winter Plan. Mencap responds.
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Getting help with your health
Read our guides about health care, including our hospital passport
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NHS Decision Making Tool risks people with a learning disability being refused life-saving treatment, according to Mencap
The UK’s leading learning disability charity, Mencap, responds to the COVID-19 Decision Making Tool that has been circulated to clinicians working in the NHS, according to the Financial Times.
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Boost Day: It’s crucial that people with a learning disability get the support they need to access booster jabs
Boost Day: It’s crucial that people with a learning disability get the support they need to access booster jabs
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More people locked up in modern day asylums during lockdown: Mencap calls for cross-government strategy to drive change needed to transform social care
More people locked up in modern day asylums during lockdown: Mencap calls for cross-government strategy to drive change needed to transform social care
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Mencap responds to ONS statistics on the social impact of COVID-19 for people with a disability
Mencap responds to ONS statistics on the social impacts of COVID-19 for people with a disability
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Face coverings
Find out what face coverings are, when they should be worn and how to wear one.
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Locked up during lockdown: Government target missed yet again to release people with a learning disability and/or autism from ‘modern day asylums’
Mencap and Challenging Behaviour Foundation warn that the Covid-19 pandemic could lead to even more vulnerable people being admitted to inpatient units.
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#SocialCareCrisis
People with a learning disability have been left behind as coronavirus lockdown restrictions ease because they cannot access the social care support they need.
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Mencap welcomes "much needed" infection control funding but calls for urgent investment in social care sector
Today, the Department of Health and Social Care announced an extra £546 million in funding for the Infection Control Fund for the social care sector.
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Mencap responds to Healthwatch England report on dentistry and the impact of COVID-19
Mencap responds to Healthwatch England report on dentistry and the impact of COVID-19
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"I am only human and if I cannot get a break then I will break myself": Eight months on from first lockdown people with a learning disability are still struggling without support as cash-strapped councils start further cuts
Nearly nine in ten people with a learning disability have still not have all their social care support reinstated eight months after the first lockdown, according to new Mencap survey
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