More Than ‘Keeping an Eye’: Ensuring Children With Intellectual Disabilities Are Safe and Feel Safe in Hospital
A new healthcare lens is needed which places equal priority on the non-medical and medical needs of patients, and which recognises the importance of children and their parents both feeling and being safe in hospital. The use of a risk assessment instrument to facilitate this has the potential for multiple improvements at all levels.
Authors
- Kate Oulton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5778-3849)
- Faith Gibson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8125-4584)
- Charlotte Kenten (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7012-7347)
- Jo Wray (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4769-1211)
- Jessica Russell
Institutions
- Queen Mary University of London (GB)
- Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities
- Published
- 2025-04-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.70055
- Primary Topic
- Down syndrome and intellectual disability research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Institute for Health and Care Research
- NIHR Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research Centre