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Welcome to NHS Evidence - learning disabilities

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The aim of the specialist collection

LATEST ADDITIONS - This collection was updated on 20 November 2009

Improving Health Supporting Justice The National Delivery Plan of the Health and Criminal Justice Programme Board
The Government's national delivery plan for health and criminal justice as developed by the Health and Criminal Justice Programme Board, building on Lord Bradley's 2009 review of mental health and learning disability in the criminal justice system.
Caregiver Perceptions of the Understanding of Death and Need for Bereavement Support in Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
What are staff perceptions of service users' conceptualizations of death, and how confident are they in their own ability to provide post-bereavement support?
Access to Secondary Healthcare for People with Intellectual Disabilities A Review of the Literature
What are the barriers to access to secondary healthcare for people with learning disabilities, and what could help to remove them?
Cause-specific mortality and death certificate reporting in adults with moderate to profound intellectual disability
How do causes of death in people with moderate to profound learning disabilities compare with the general population?
Trends in Down syndrome live births and antenatal diagnoses in England and Wales from 1989 to 2008
Description of trends in numbers of Down syndrome live births and antenatal diagnoses in England and Wales from 1989 to 2008 through analysis of National Down Syndrome Cytogenetic Register

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What you can expect to find in this site

Provided by NICE, NHS Evidence is a new service which will develop, enhance and expand the services that were previously provided by the National Library for Health (NLH). The NLH and its specialist libraries became part of NHS Evidence on 1 April 2009. NHS Evidence went live on April 30th 2009 at www.evidence.nhs.uk.

As part of ongoing developments, the specialist libraries are changing their names and will, as a group, be called specialist collections. This individual collection is now  ’NHS Evidence – learning disabilities’, and you will continue to be able to access all the content and features. The existing URL for the collection will remain for now, but is likely to change later in the year as the specialist collections become fully integrated with the NHS Evidence portal.   

For more information about NHS Evidence, please follow this link to the NICE website: http://www.nice.org.uk/aboutnice/nhsevidence/AboutNHSEvidence.jsp