Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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<p>There’s nothing new in declaring that inequality and difference can characterise the lives of people with learning disabilities.
<p>‘I thought I knew my son so well until we started planning with John.
<p>The popular author Terry Pratchett (2001) has an expressive way of writing.
<p>Government reports and practice documents have increasingly emphasised the need for primary healthcare teams and learning disability teams to work in tandem to provide
<p>With approximately 600 million prescriptions dispensed a year, it is likely that most of us will be offered treatment with prescribed medication at some point in our li
<p>The recommendations of Valuing People (Department of Health (DoH) 2001), and more particularly A Framework for Person Centred Planning (DoH 2001a), have given added piq
<p>The concept of measuring nursing outcomes is complex.
<p>Moves are currently under way to provide better, more rational and improved services for people with learning disabilities.
<p>The aggression of people with learning disabilities presents a difficult challenge to service providers (Black et al 1997).
<p>There is always a tension between the kind of planning that professionals must do as part of their job and the planning that an individual might do for his or her own l
<p>People with learning disabilities are vulnerable to developing mental health problems; this is due to an interaction of biological, psychological and social factors.
<p>People with learning disabilities are at greater risk of developing mental health problems than the general population, with prevalence rates of 20 per cent having been
<p>The Valuing People White Paper (Department of Health 2001) identified the need for people with learning disabilities to access mainstream primary and secondary healthcare services.
<p>The Valuing People White Paper (DoH 2001) emphasised that people with learning disabilities should have more power and control over what happens in their lives.
<p>Until fairly recently, most people with intellectual disability and challenging behaviour lived in long-stay hospitals (Emerson and Hatton 1994, Jones and Eayrs 1993, McGill et al 1994).
<p>At a time when curriculum revision for pre-registration nurse education has reduced the length of the common foundation programme (CFP) by a third (DoH 1999a, UKCC 1999), student nurses at this stage of their course are subject to considerably shortened placements and correspondingly les
<p>The relationship between siblings is often lifelong, perhaps spanning 80 years or more. For those young people who have a brother or sister with special needs this relationship can become more of a burden than a joy.
<p>The Valuing People White Paper (Department of Health 2001) stressed the importance of person centred planning (PCP) in helping people with learning disabilities to take charge of their own lives.
