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Baroness Merron (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 17 June 2025

Debate

Learning Disabilities Nursing

Contribution

The noble Baroness is quite right. One of the difficulties is that sometimes there is misdiagnosis, where it is incorrectly assumed, for the very reasons that the noble Baroness gives, that the presenting condition is the learning disability when actually it is a different condition. I agree about the need that the noble Baroness outlines. In reports such as the LeDeR review and Transforming Care, there is a national focus on reducing health inequalities and increasing awareness of this very point about diagnostic overshadowing. I will ensure that that is key to what we are doing.

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