Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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<p>people with learning disabilities have not, historically, been treated well by the NHS.
<p>People with severe and profound learning disabilities still represent one of the most marginalised groups in society.
<p>Learning disability nursing in Scotland can be considered to be facing some difficult times.
<p>Neville Parkes used a focus group approach to explore what staff think about the expression of sexuality among people with learning disabilities</p>
<p>At some point in their lives, most practitioners will have witnessed someone having an epileptic episode.
<p>Many people with a learning disability live in community settings supported by social care staff.
<p>After finding some interesting research findings on the web from 40 years ago, pointing to the beneficial effects of a drug, dimethylglycine, on children with autism, A
<p>Northgate and Prudhoe NHS Trust is a specialist trust catering for people with disability, including learning disability.
<p>A report commissioned by The Children’s Society has enabled children to say what they want from advocacy.
<p>The Care Programme Approach (CPA) (DH 1990) was introduced when there was increasing public concern over a series of high-profile homicides and suicides involving peopl
<p>Although people with learning disabilities face an increased vulnerability to developing mental health problems, they use relatively few mental health services (Gustafs
<p>A high frequency of exposure to violence has been described among caregivers working in services for people with learning disability.
<p>Incontinence tends to be viewed as integral to having severe learning disabilities (Bradley and Ferris 1995). Carers may not prioritise continence training with some of their clients, and nurses may think that clients are too old for training or that further training is unwarranted.
<p>Even though challenging behaviour is common among people with learning disabilities not all carers use guidelines issued by clinical psychologists. Karen McKenzie and colleagues discuss a study that explored why interventions might not be used</p>
<p>The Valuing People White Paper (Department of Health 2001a) states that: ‘Children with disabilities have exactly the same health needs as other children, in addition to health needs arising from their particular disability.’ However, there is a wide range of unmet medical health needs i
<p>In the first part of this article, I evaluated personal outcomes in light of recent research findings, changing policies and my own personal understandings (Callaghan 2005).
<p>Healthcare provision is constantly responding to changes in technology, demographics, politics, consumer knowledge and economics (Porter-O’Grady 2003, Sofarelli and Brown 1998).
<p>Reflection and reflective practice are said to be beneficial to nurses (NMC 2002).
