One-page patient passport for people with learning disabilities

Darren Brodrick1, David Lewis, Andy Worth

  • 1Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. darren.brodrick@davidlewis.org.uk

Nursing Standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987)
|September 6, 2011
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