Partnerships for safe care: A meta-narrative of the experience for the parent of a child with Intellectual Disability in hospital.

This review presents a working model for professional-parent partnership for the safe care of children with Intellectual Disability in hospital. Shifting paediatric healthcare to whole of hospital/multidisciplinary models of care that centre on the child will necessitate partnerships with the parent to identify and manage the needs of the child with Intellectual Disability, in order to achieve safe and equitable care for these children.