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Now is the Winter(bourne) of our discontent As has been universally acknowledged, the programme set up by the government in the wake of the Panorama undercover expose of horrendous abuse at Winterbourne View, a ‘specialist hospital’ for people with learning disabilities, has not to date been a success. From the description of the Care Minister, Norman Lamb, of the programme as an ‘abject failure’ ( http://www.hsj.co.uk/news/commissioning/winterbourne-view-scheme-an-abject-failure-minister-admits/5070443.article#.U4yKWPldWCk ) to the director of the programme, Bill Mumford, stating in a recent blog that “ A lot has been written by me and elsewhere which expresses a widespread and understandably deep frustration with the sector's response since” ( http://www.local.gov.uk/place-i-call-home/-/journal_content/56/10180/6211266 ), a winter of discontent has not been made glorious summer this June. Three years on from the original Panorama expose and with only one year left of the official...