This has to stop
Jim Blair Learning disabilities nurse consultant, St George’s Hospital, London
Ian Mansell Senior lecturer, Learning disabilities at the University of Glamorgan
Jim Blair and Ian Mansell argue for a specialist group to prevent the abuse of vulnerable people
The BBC’s recent Panorama documentary, Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed, showed highly distressing scenes of people with learning disabilities being abused in a Bristol care home. Such shocking treatment has to be eradicated.
Nursing Standard.
25, 43, 24-25.
doi: 10.7748/ns.25.43.24.s27
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