title: Meeting the health care needs of people with learning disabilities.
abstract: This article looks at the findings of a study on how primary health care teams saw the health care needs of people with learning disabilities and how those needs were being met. Among the issues discussed is the significance of relevant education in an interdisciplinary setting and the potential shift of some specialist community learning disability nurses to the primary health care team.
authors.affiliation: community health studies, University of Reading.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Thornton
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D017144:Focus Groups; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000451:nursing*; D009720:Nurse Clinicians; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*