Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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<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.
<p>The ideal site for administering intramuscular (IM) injections has been discussed in a number of recently published articles (Nisbet 2006, Greenway 2004, Small 2004).
<p>It would not be unreasonable to expect that such practices were confined to the history books. After all, in no other area of health care would these abuses be found.
<p>In January 2004 Hampshire Partnership Board established a person-centred planning team in response to Valuing People (Department of Health (DH) 2001).
<p>The population of people with learning disabilities is an ageing one, and its changing demographics challenge services that were originally developed for children and y
<p>Can you remember your nurse training?
<p>In her work as a learning disability nurse, Sarah had become aware that parents of people with learning disabilities were increasingly asking her about their family his
<p>What connects Chesterfield Foot-ball Supporters’ Society, Bulky Bob’s waste collection service in Liverpool and the Shetland Soap Company?
<p>Services for people with learning disabilities have seen massive changes over the past decade.
<p>The term ‘learning disability’ is a social construct whose defining characteristics change in response to political and social influences.
<p>Using physical interventions to restrict people with learning disabilities has always been a controversial issue.
<p>Every area of health care is increasingly under-pinned by the principle of evidence-based practice.
<p>Parenting a child with severe learning disabilities can bring about many challenges for the parents and their families.
<p>The Valuing People White Paper confirmed that the general health of people with learning disabilities is very poor (Department of Health 2001). Despite the initiatives it unveiled, only limited progress has been made in recent years.
<p>The Valuing People White Paper identified that ‘services and support to people with learning disabilities from minority ethnic communities are failing to meet the needs of individuals and their families’ (Department of Health (DH) 2001a).
<p>Down’s Syndrome Scotland received funding in 2003 from the Big Lottery Fund and the Scottish Executive to run a three-year health project.
<p>‘Sexuality’, when viewed in its broadest context, it is not just about sex in the physical sense, but is also concerned with trust, love, respect, relationships and friendships (National Association for the Mentally Handicapped of Ireland (NAMH) 2003).
