Objectives People with intellectual disability are vulnerable in terms of health service
provision due to increased comorbidity, higher dependency and cognitive impairment. This …

Background Autism is a normal part of cognitive diversity, resulting in communication and
sensory processing differences, which can become disabling in a neurotypical world …

Objective While it is generally accepted that adults with intellectual and developmental
disabilities (IDDs) use health services to a greater extent than the general population, there …

Background General anaesthesia (GA) may be required to support the care of those seen in
Special Care Dentistry (SCD) services for various reasons, such as enabling extensive …

Good communication is central to good healthcare. As a result of poor communication
between parents and healthcare professionals (HCPs) in clinical settings, this study aimed …

Autism can make menstruation and menopause and other aspects of reproductive and
sexual health (RSH) more difficult. However, healthcare professionals (HCPs) often fail to …

Aim To investigate if there are inequities in quality and safety outcomes for children with
intellectual disability admitted to two tertiary paediatric hospitals. Method A cross‐sectional …

Objectives To produce a narrative synthesis of published academic and grey literature
focusing on patient safety outcomes for people with learning disabilities in an acute hospital …

Patients with mild intellectual disabilities (ID) face significant communication barriers within
primary care services. This has a detrimental effect on the quality of treatment being …

Co-design techniques generally rely upon higher-order cognitive skills, such as abstraction
and creativity, meaning they may be inaccessible to people with intellectual disabilities (ID) …