The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) are running a study to investigate the management of acute illness in patients aged 18 or over, with a learning disability.

NCEPOD is a national organisation that runs confidential enquiries to improve the quality of care for people in the UK. 

Their study will be used to produce a report for clinicians and other healthcare staff about how to improve the care they deliver.

The survey should take less than 10 minutes to complete and can be filled out here: Learning Disability Study - Health and Social Care Professional Survey (Page 1 of 6). It is open until October 2025.

The report is due to be published in Summer 2026.