North Essex Partnership…get your staff ready

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt had said the following…

From next June we will publish independently assured, Ofsted-style ratings of the quality of care offered to people with learning disabilities for all 209 Clinical Commission Groups areas.

This will ensure that we shine a spotlight on the variations in care allowing rapid action to be taken when standards fall short. Secondly, NHS England have commissioned the University of Bristol to do an independent study into the mortality rates of people with learning disabilities in NHS care. This will be a very important moment to step back and look at the way we look after that particular highly vulnerable group.