Social: Pro bono
Developed in partnership with the national learning disability charity, Mencap, Rachel’s Voice works to reduce avoidable deaths of people with a learning disability in healthcare settings with the mission of driving health equality.
The initiative also provides legal advice to families and carers of people with a learning disability who have suffered an avoidable death in an acute hospital setting due to failures in medical care, whether the death has occurred in the hospital or in the community after discharge.
Rachel's Voice
Case study:
Commissioned research with the University of Liverpool to examine patterns in reporting of deaths over the past 4 years
Met with
NHS England,
the governing body for all health services in England setting out our concerns on death certification and the need for change
Continuing engagement with Department of Health
Effected changes
to a Health Trust's investigatory process to ensure it includes considerations
specific to learning
disabilities
Achieved the
Reopening of an
inquest into the death
of a 27 year old woman for whom an inquest had previously
been refused
Over the past couple of years, the project has:
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