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Accessible Summary: What information do people with learning disabilities want with their medications?

By Dr Rebecca Fish and Professor Chris Hatton, (Lancaster University), Professor Umesh Chauhan, (UCLAN) This blog is about the information that people receive about their medicine. The project was or…

Accessible Summary: ‘Behind this wall’– seclusion and locked wards

by Rebecca Fish In 2012 I did some research on 3 locked wards for women on an NHS secure unit for people with learning disabilities in England. People are sent to these units under the Mental Health A…

The MCA is 10

The MCA is 10 – Time to Party The 27th September 2017 is the 10th Birthday of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA). We want to celebrate all that the Act brings to social work practice including greate…

Accessible Summary: Named social workers – better social work for learning disabled people?

We (Elaine James, Hannah Morgan and Rob Mitchell) wrote an article for the Current Issues section of the journal Disability & Society to share our ideas about how social work with people with lear…

A Trade in People

Within the Centre for Disability Research (CeDR) at Lancaster University we’ve been supporting the 7 Days of Action campaign (see their website https://www.sevendaysofaction.net/ ). This campaign,…

Accessible summary: Use of physical restraint on locked wards

by Rebecca Fish Physical restraint is holding somebody to stop them moving. It is done to stop harm to people or damage to property. Staff sometimes use physical restraint to restrict someone�…

Scholars from Russia’s TPU visit CeDR

On 9th November 2016, CeDR welcomed visitors from Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) in Russia. They were: Professor Leonid Kapilevich, Doctor of medicine, Department of Sports Disciplines Professor N…

Blog: Friends and Family on the locked ward

by Rebecca Fish Throughout my career, I have met many family members of people who have been detained in inpatient units. I have talked to people who have had their son or daughter ‘placed’ in var…

Blog: ‘That blue room’ – seclusion and locked wards

Rebecca Fish In 2012 I spent 9 months doing ethnographic research on 3 locked wards for women on an NHS secure unit for people with learning disabilities in England. People are detained in these units…

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