Learning disability care hospital beds reduced

[annie]

The number of hospital beds for people with learning disabilities and autism will be halved in England, the NHS has announced.

It is a response to the abuse scandal exposed by the BBC at Winterbourne View and will see patients "live in homes, not hospitals".

The largest learning disability hospital, Calderstones in Lancashire, will be closed as part of the measures.

However, campaigners questioned the amount of funding for the new system

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/

[wendy]

what brilliant news, there has been to much abuse going on for too long in these so called homes.

[Honey]

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