Access to primary healthcare for people with learning disabilities
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Access to primary healthcare for people with learning disabilities

Dave Atkinson Independent consultant nurse

It is well established that people with learning disabilities experience premature mortality, have more long-term conditions than the general population and are exposed to well-known determinants of health inequalities. Yet their access to primary healthcare can be problematic.

Learning Disability Practice. 21, 3, 11-11. doi: 10.7748/ldp.21.3.11.s9

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