Room at the top
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Room at the top

Jim Blair Learning disability consultant nurse, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Kingston and St George’s Universities
Dave Ferguson Consultant nurse, Cornerstone Healthcare, University of Hertfordshire

Why learning disability nursing needs a new form of leadership

SEVEN YEARS ago the parliamentary health service ombudsman (2009) said the quality of care in the NHS and social services for people with learning disabilities was ‘at best patchy, at worst an indictment of our society.’

Learning Disability Practice. 19, 5, 13-13. doi: 10.7748/ldp.19.5.13.s12

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