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Learning disability care: 'It was like living in hell'

The number of hospital beds for people with learning disabilities and autism will be halved in England, the NHS has announced.
It is a response to the abuse scandal exposed by the 麻豆官网首页入口 at Winterbourne View and will see patients "live in homes, not hospitals".
Bill Heron has a learning disability and spent 25 years in an institution - he told the programme it was like "living in hell". While Sir Stephen Bubb - who led a review into the future of services for people with learning disabilities - said it was a "disgrace we treat people with learning disabilities in the way we have in institutions".

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