{"id":162325,"date":"2025-09-26T21:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/162325\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T21:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:31:11","slug":"doctors-actor-highlights-healthcare-access-issues-on-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/162325\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors actor highlights healthcare access issues on walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The latest Learning from Lives and Deaths \u2013 People with a Learning Disability and Autistic People (Leder) paper was published in September by King&#8217;s College London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It analysed the deaths of 3,556 people with a learning disability from January to December 2023 and found 39% of them were classed as avoidable deaths \u2013 18% higher than the rate for the general population.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for NHS England in the Midlands said there had been an improvement in care for people with a learning disability over the past few years, with a &#8220;measurable impact on health outcomes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They said: &#8220;Across the Midlands, GPs are working on ensuring that people with a learning disability get the reasonable adjustments they need to access healthcare including recording specific requirements and offering longer appointment slots.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest Learning from Lives and Deaths \u2013 People with a Learning Disability and Autistic People (Leder) paper&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-162325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}