There would always be loopholes or failures in the care system, with or without our own will. It takes tragedies to make us aware of the need of improvement, monitoring and more drastic laws in the care system.

As in the case of Harold Shipman, a respected British GP and one of the most prolific serial killers whose killing spree is estimated at 250. Most of his victims were elderly women, about 80%. His usual method of killing was by the administration of a lethal dose of Diamorphine.
It was the failure of the system in place to identify his crimes during the course of his medical career, in which the police failed to investigate the patient’s death properly.
In the wake of the Shipman’s case a series of recommendations were included in the …show more content…
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Again it took the death of six people with learning disability in which the MENCAP believe were the result of failings in the NHS. ‘’ Death by Indifference’’ as it was called brought to surface the failure by health professionals to provide proper level of care and neglect of people with disability, lack of basic care, poor communication, delays in diagnosing and treatment, failure to recognise pain, the inappropriate use of DNR, doctors whose practices appear to show no regard to the Equality Act or Mental Capacity Act.
The report put the spotlight on the tragic consequences of the healthcare inequalities experienced by people with a learning disability to bring about changes Under the slogan ‘’Valuing people now’’ in 2009 the Department of health published a three year plan for learning disability Services in England. Valuing People Now is a restatement of an existing policy and much of its success relies on the implementation of other policies and legislation, as they relate to people with learning disabilities. What is needed to ensure change happens is action to: strengthen/improve existing practice, ensure that all people with learning disabilities are fully included, develop and deliver additional, enhanced, joined-up or more flexible services and structures, and support, monitor and measure all of the above. In the same year (2009), the UK finally ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It reaffirmed that disabled people have same human right as