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Deaths of people with learning disabilities deserve proper scrutiny – The Guardian
Letter: The inquest into Laura Booth’s death, a young woman with learning disabilities who died in hospital, shows urgent reform is needed
The critical finding at the inquest into Laura Booths death raises alarming concerns about the failing system of investigation into the deaths of people with learning disabilities (Report, 26 April). Initially, Lauras death was said to be expected and was attributed to natural causes on the basis of a death certificate signed by a hospital doctor. Without the determination of Lauras family and the intervention of the media, this inquest would never have happened, and the truth about her death from…
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