Abstract
Learning disability and health care provision
Highlights
Sir: In The Children of Leros (British Journal of Psychiatry, July 1995, 167, Suppl. 28) it was not just shortage of resources which posed problems in improving the lifestyles of people with learning disabilities but the resistance among staff to change and their attitudes towards their stigma Vtiseerdma'cshaargrteics.le T(Phsisychthiaetmrice Bwuallsetinec, hoJueldy i1n99D5,r
Sir: At the recent Annual General Meeting (AGM)of East Anglian Division there was a unanimous expression of support for our consultant colleague, Dr Dianne Le Fevre and a rejection of the criticism she received in the Woodley Report into the murder of a psychiatric day patient by Stephen Laudai
The Woodley Report, while criticising Dr Le Fevre, contradictorily stated that no specific aacltteiorends tohfemternatgailc hoeuatlctohmpe.rofDesrsiLoenaFlsevrwe'sourldesphoanve sibility as a consultant includes the delegation of duties while retaining accountability but her contribution in out-patient clinics, multidiscipnloitnahryavemeseetcinugresd, aSntdepSheenctioLnau1d1a7t'srevcioewmspuwlsoouryld re-admission to hospital for restarting medication given that he was behaving normally
Summary
Sir: In The Children of Leros (British Journal of Psychiatry, July 1995, 167, Suppl. 28) it was not just shortage of resources which posed problems in improving the lifestyles of people with learning disabilities but the resistance among staff to change and their attitudes towards their stigma Vtiseerdma'cshaargrteics.le T(Phsisychthiaetmrice Bwuallsetinec, hoJueldy i1n99D5,r. Sir: At the recent Annual General Meeting (AGM)of East Anglian Division there was a unanimous expression of support for our consultant colleague, Dr Dianne Le Fevre and a rejection of the criticism she received in the Woodley Report into the murder of a psychiatric day patient by Stephen Laudai. On discharge from hospital he was behaving normally and had been medication-free for 18 months. The Woodley Report, while criticising Dr Le Fevre, contradictorily stated that no specific aacltteiorends tohfemternatgailc hoeuatlctohmpe.rofDesrsiLoenaFlsevrwe'sourldesphoanve sibility as a consultant includes the delegation of duties while retaining accountability but her contribution in out-patient clinics, multidiscipnloitnahryavemeseetcinugresd, aSntdepSheenctioLnau1d1a7t'srevcioewmspuwlsoouryld re-admission to hospital for restarting medication given that he was behaving normally.
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