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Heslop, Pauline

The knowledge people with learning disabilities and their carers have about psychotropic medication

Psychotropic medications are a treatment commonly used for people with learning disabilities. Legislation and guidance suggest that, for a person to give informed consent to treatment, they must have knowledge of the potential treatment. This study of 21 people with learning disabilities, and their carers and prescribers, living in four different regions of England, suggests that few of the people with learning disabilities were fully informed about their treatment.

Thu, 07/20/2017 - 15:13