Dr Rory Sheehan: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Co-investigator and Senior Clinical Lecturer at King's IoPPN
- Quoted on
- Learning disability & autism
- Tracked press citations
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
“The LeDeR 2024 report indicates that progress in reducing health inequalities in people with a learning disability continues to be a challenge. LeDeR is important because it provides the evidence of where care is falling short and where systems should focus their efforts on reducing health inequalities.”
What Dr Rory Sheehan has said
“Pneumonia and epilepsy are largely treatable, so seeing them as leading causes of avoidable death in this group points to a gap between the care people could receive and the care they are getting. Closing that gap means making sure basic interventions, health checks, vaccination, timely treatment, reliably reach adults with severe or profound intellectual disability.”
Senior Clinical Lecturer at King's IoPPN · Learning disability & autism · 30 Sept 2026 · People with severe intellectual disability are dying 24 years younger than the general population ↗
“Pneumonia and epilepsy are largely treatable, so seeing them as leading causes of avoidable death in this group points to a gap between the care people could receive and the care they are getting.”
Senior clinical lecturer at King's institute of psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience · Learning disability & autism · 30 Sept 2026 · People with severe intellectual disabilities live 24 years less on average ↗
Where Dr Rory Sheehan has been quoted
- Fewer people with a learning disability dying from avoidable causes, but still almost twice as high as the general populationkcl.ac.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- People with severe intellectual disability are dying 24 years younger than the general populationkcl.ac.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- People with severe intellectual disabilities live 24 years less on averagetheguardian.com · 30 Sept 2026
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