Related Articles Improving health care for disabled people in COVID 19 and beyond Lessons from Australia and England Disabil Health J 2020 Dec 05 101050 Authors Kavanagh A Dickinson H Carey G Llewellyn G Emerson E Disney G Hatton C Abstract COVID 19 has exacerbated pre existing difficulties children and adults with disability face accessing quality health care Some people with disability are at greater risk of contracting COVID 19 because they require support for personal care and are unable to physically distance e g those living in congregate settings Additionally some people with disability have health conditions that put them at higher risk of poor outcomes if they become infected Despite this governments have been slow to recognise and respond to the unique and diverse health care needs of people with disability during COVID 19 While some countries including Australia have improved access to high quality health care for people with disability others like England have failed to support their citizens with disability In this Commentary we describe the health care responses of England and Australia and make recommendations for rapidly improving health care for people with disability in the pandemic and beyond PMID 33341397 PubMed as supplied by publisher