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Tue 12 Dec 2009Disabled 'not receiving adequate medical care'
ADULTS WITH learning disabilities may not be adequately treated when they experience illnesses the rest of the population take for granted, a leading specialist has suggested.
Speaking at the launch of one of the first formal collaborations between a service provider and a university in the Republic, Dr Tony Holland, Health Foundation Chair in Learning Disabilities at University of Cambridge, said people with intellectual disability had complex and variable needs.
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