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Once a day one or more people with learning disabilities are likely to be in contact with your primary healthcare team how can you help them?

  • Document type:
    Publication
  • Author:
    Department of Health
  • Published date:
    1 January 1999
  • Primary audience:
    Professionals
  • Gateway reference:
    1999
  • Series number:
    Catalogue number 98C114/173B
  • Pages:
    34
  • Copyright holder:
    Crown Copyright

Handbook which aims to promote good practice in enabling people with learning disabilities to access and receive good quality services from primary health care teams. It's objective is to address the problems caused by the fact that there are often difficulties in meeting the needs of people with learning disabilities.

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