title: Palliative care and intellectual disabilities: individual roles, collective responsibilities.
abstract: Palliative care should be fully accessible to all those who need it. However, some individuals may be disadvantaged from a palliative care perspective, for a variety of different reasons. This paper brings together three practitioners working in different professional roles who all have a similar interest: palliative care for people with intellectual disabilities. Each practitioner will describe how they are developing local, practice-based initiatives in an effort to improve palliative care for this marginalised group in North Staffordshire, congruent with local and national policies.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Keele University, Clinical Education Centre, University Hospital of North Staffordshire, NHS Trust, City General Hospital, Newcaslte Rad, Staffs, UK. s.c.read@nur.keele.ac.uk
authors.forename: Sue
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Read
authors.forename: Sue
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jackson
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cartlidge
mesh_terms: D006738:Hospices; D006801:Humans; D016743:Mental Competency; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009726:Nurses; D010166:Palliative Care