NHS England must do more to meet the needs of people with learning disabilities when they are treated in hospital, the patient safety body said. The Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) ...

A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has been developed to predict how long a person with a learning disability is likely to stay in hospital, offering valuable insights that could improve care ...

One of England’s largest mental health and learning disability providers failed to investigate the 'unexpected' deaths of too many patients, according to a leaked report. Southern Health NHS ...

A specific learning disability, also known as a specific learning disorder, is a neurological condition that affects an individual’s ability to learn and process information in a specific area, like ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Learning disabilities are disorders that affect one's ability in the domains of spoken or written language, mathematical calculation, attention, or the coordination of movement. They can occur in ...

It is often said in jest that the only people who know where some people with learning disabilities are living are finance officers. So many live in NHS care, in such a multitude of settings, that ...

Medical school graduate Eshani Kishore never received any formal education in how to treat patients with disabilities, considered one of the largest minority groups in the nation. “If we were more ...

Last month, the Diabetic Eye Screening Team at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals (DBTH) delivered a dedicated ...