This news is horrifying, but sets out exactly what concerned people have been saying all through #coronavirus. While some people with a learning disability might have had underlying condition, it's impossible to ignore the role poor understanding...(1/7) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54924121

... and communication will have played. And even if they did have an underlying health problem, it's *still* completely unacceptable. And tragically it was probably avoidable in far too many cases. (2/7)

It's *undeniably* right that there should be a full review of all the deaths this analysis for people with a learning disability has uncovered. It needs to hold the system accountable and make sure it doesn't happen again. Ever. (3/7)

Over the last nine months I've been talking a lot about the impact of coronavirus on autistic people - some of whom have learning disability, some of whom don't. But there is a shared health inequality that still isn't being addressed. (4/7)

The sad (unacceptable, for me) fact is that we won't know what the health impact on autistic people has been, because there isn't the same data. We can try and find out, but until autism - and autistic people's needs - are properly recorded, we won't have the full picture. (5/7)

The fact that the health system can't replicate this work across all health inequalities is wrong. The fact that it's a simple lack of data that stands in the way is, frankly, shameful. (6/7)

There's been a lot of big talk about health inequality during the pandemic. It came up at yesterday's #NHSAssembly, as it should. But that talk needs to turn to action. This review could set out a way for others to follow. I think it's important they do. (7/7)