Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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<p>Intellectual disability nursing in Ireland has developed since 1926, largely within the traditions of religious and voluntary organisations (Barrington 1987).
<p>Attempting to involve people with profound and multiple disabilities in staff selection has always presented a challenge.
<p>Epilepsy has a lifetime prevalence of 2.5 per cent in the general population (Sander and Hart 1999).
<p>People with learning disabilities are increasingly participating in research and may therefore require ‘accessible’ information before and after the study.
<p>Mental health problems are a significant issue for many people with learning disabilities.
<p>This isn’t the first time an initiative has been developed with the aim of giving people with learning disabilities more control over their lives.
<p>For people with learning disabilities, dependence on others for intimate care might be caused by deficits in cognition and difficulties with carrying out practical and
<p>Early on in the project, we decided to help a group of people to develop their skills in training others about person-centred planning (PCP).
<p>Despite growing evidence that neuroleptic medication can trigger weight gain, many services fail to ensure that people with learning disabilities and mental health prob
<p>Last February The Howard League for Penal Reform stated that unacceptable levels of pain was routinely being used to restrain children in custody.
<p>About 120,000 people in Scotland have learning disabilities; around a quarter of whom are aged under 16 years, while another quarter have complex needs.
<p>The Valuing People White Paper (Department of Health (DH) 2001) is part of the developing social policy driving partnership, empowerment and community responsibility in
<p>Person-centred planning (PCP) is about people with learning disabilities having control of their own lives. But, from the authors’ experience, relatively little is known about PCP outside the realm of paid staff.
<p>Computers and the internet have the ability to change lives positively and link the isolated and marginalised, including people with learning disabilities.
<p>It is estimated that the National Health Service Cervical Screening Programme (NHSCSP) prevents from 1,100 to 3.900 cases of cervical cancer annually (Sasieni 1996). Health inequalities for people with learning disabilities are well recognised (Disability Rights Commission 2006).
<p>Anger is a subjective emotional state involving physiological arousal and cognitions of hostility which can precede aggressive behaviour (Novaco 1994).
<p>The Valuing People White Paper (DH 2001) suggests that facilitators are essential to person-centred planning (PCP).
<p>The continence service in the local health trust is changing to become increasingly nurse led. So far, the emphasis has been on typically developing children.
