Through the round window
This week, for the first time the MyNHS website published some information on services for people with learning disabilities in England, broken down to the level of individual Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs). The relevant webpage is here – although I found it quite slow to load, it did work for me in the end. Although knowledge is not necessarily power, any steps towards transparency are to be welcomed, and although I don’t know this I guess the hand of Dominic Slowie behind it. Dominic will be much missed as National Clinical Director for Learning Disabilities. In this blogpost I simply want to describe what information has been published online to help people understand what is (and isn’t) there when looking up their local CCG area. There are two types of information published online here (a much wider set of information about people with learning disabilities broken down by local authority area in England is available here ). The first is the number of people with learning dis...