This petition was submitted during the 2020-2024 Conservative government
Rejected petition Mandatory Autism Module for all training health professionals.
Autism needs to be included as a mandatory module for any health professional in training. A full module which they are tested and marked on. Dclins/Nurses and doctors who do rotational training should also have it made mandatory to do a rotation working with Autism.
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Developing the training will help Autists of the future to access Neurodivergent Affirmative treatment.
- autistic women are 13x more likely to die by suicide
- misrecognition leads to iatrogenic harm that produces distress further misdiagnosed.
We do need this now and there is a mandatory training in place however this needs to be be deepened and embedded in to the educational system.
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