Implementing reasonable adjustments for -disabled people in healthcare services

Pauline Heslop1, Sue Turner2, Stuart Read3

  • 1School for Policy Studies, Norah Fry Centre for Disability Studies, University of Bristol, Bristol, England.

Nursing Standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987)
|August 31, 2019
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