‘Physical Disability in 1986 and Beyond’: A Review of the RCP Report

Abstract

Successive official reports on rehabilitation and helping disabled people have been welcomed and then ignored. The Royal College of Physicians Report, however, appears to have been published at a time when public and professional opinion is in favour of developing services of this sort. A number of health authorities have already started to use the report as the basis for their own services and other changes, including the integration of the Artificial Limb and Appliance Centres (Disablement Service Centres) into the National Health Service, give hope for the future. An important part of the report is the demand for audit and a timetable, which for the first time will enable the monitoring of implementation of the recommendations.

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