UK plans inquiry into deaths of people with disabilities
January 19th, 2009
From the BBC:
A confidential inquiry to investigate premature deaths of people with learning disabilities in England is to be set up by the Department of Health.
It comes in response to an independent inquiry, published in July 2008, into the deaths of vulnerable National Health Service patients highlighted by Mencap.
Cases include Martin Ryan, 43, who went 26 days without food before he died after staff did not fit a feeding tube.
The disability charity Mencap documented the cases in the report “Death by Indifference.” It said the deaths demonstrated institutional discrimination within the UK’s National Health Service against people with learning disabilities. Earlier post here.
(BBC photo)
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