Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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<p>Connexions, the government’s youth support and advice service, was launched in April 2001 in 15 areas of England.
<p>Many views, doubts and hopes have been expressed about joint training since its inception more than a decade ago.
<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
<p>Part of my role as research co-ordinator in the learning disability directorate of West Hampshire Trust is to promote a research culture.
<p>We live in a culture in which national and local policy drivers emphasise the need to take public opinion into account.
<p>Spirituality is a basic human need and a human right.
<p>Person centered planning (PCP) is a key component of this government’s Valuing People White Paper (Department of Health 2001).
<p>There has been a growing debate about the role of learning disability nursing as a profession (Pennington 2000).
<p>Care providers need to do more to acknowledge that challenging sexual behaviour is a central issue which they must resolve.
<p>There are few issues in the field of learning disabilities on which everyone - government, service users and carers, service providers, professionals and voluntary orga
<p>Choice is increasingly taking centre stage of the modernisation agenda within the NHS.
<p>Beginning with case studies about planning, we describe the planning styles that are used and the contributions that professionals made to them.
<p>Orem’s self-care deficit nursing theory (Orem 2001) is widely used and accepted by nurses (Taylor 2002) and is one of the most frequently used theories in general nursing practice (Alligood and Marriner-Tomey 2002).
Exploring Orem’s self-care model in learning disability nursing: Practical application paper: part 2
<p>The development of nursing knowledge has been a theme in general nursing literature for the past 30 years.
<p>With the closure of the majority of the long-stay learning disability hospitals and the development of community-based services, primary care teams are now the first point of contact for most people with a learning disability who need to access healthcare services.
<p> T he conference, which built on a similar event held last year in London, aimed to raise awareness of the needs of people with learning disabilities – with specific reference to physical health and epilepsy in general practice.
<p>The Scottish Executive is currently considering the implications of a new groundbreaking report on the health needs of people with learning disabilities.</p>
<p>The primary aim of this article is to share a multidisciplinary model for risk assessment that has been developed by the authors. We will describe the process and argue the case for active, structured and sensible risk assessment for people with learning disabilities who have epilepsy.
