Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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<p>Recent years have witnessed many changes in services for learning disability clients, with concomitant changes in the role of learning disability nurses.
<p>Learning disability services throughout the country are having to meet the challenges of providing support and care for increasing numbers of older people with learning
<p>Obesity is headline news and will probably remain so for some time.
<p>The need to meet the healthcare needs of people with a learning disability is increasingly being highlighted.
<p>In 2000, there were an estimated 6.6 million ‘long-term’ disabled people of working age in the UK (Woolnough 2001).
<p>Developing services for people with learning disabilities who misuse alcohol or drugs is not a seen as a priority by providers.
<p>Despite the many and varied reports and policy recommendations about how to improve health care for people with learning disabilities, not much work has been done in pr
<p>Changes in service provision for people with a learning disability over the years have been accompanied by changes in terminology.
<p>Earlier this year Inclusion Europe hosted a policy conference in Prague that highlighted how the core values of respect, solidarity and inclusion are being promoted acr
<p>We seem to have statistics for everything these days, from the prevalence of coronary heart disease to the number of people who take annual holidays abroad.</p>
<p>Disabled people who are lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) are far more likely to have been physically or verbally assaulted because of their sexual orientation than their
<p>Friendships are important to most people, including those with a learning disability (Cummins and Lau 2003).
<p>When Sheffield Citizen Advocacy first began in 1984, the interests of those people described as having a learning disability were not core to the business. However, it quickly became apparent that this group needed more dedicated input and so Speaking Up For Action!
<p>Since the inception of community care for people with learning disabilities in the early 1980s, considerable concern has been expressed about the poor state of their health, and the poor uptake of health care services (Matthews et al 2002, Meehan et al 1995).
<p>The services provided for people with learning disability have changed considerably in the last 20 years with the shift from large long-stay institutions to care in the community.
<p>Growing numbers of people with learning disabilities are now choosing to live an ‘ordinary life’ and have children (Booth and Booth 1994). Meanwhile, the number of parents with learning disabilities known to support services is increasing (McGaw 1998).
<p>We help to run a staff education programme for the management of violence and aggression in the learning disability services at Doncaster and South Humber NHS Trust.
<p>It is widely recognised that many individuals with learning disabilities have additional health problems.
