Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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<p>When first contemplating writing this article we considered what aspect of person centred planning (PCP) we could embrace that was both fresh and useful.
<p>Risk assessment and risk management have been on the government’s agenda since the beginning of the 1990s in its attempt to promote quality and safety in the NHS (Walms
<p>It has long been recognised that good quality services for people with a learning disability offer a mixture of professional staff who provide primary care and speciali
<p>The CPA policy can be the traced back to the proposals to close the network of long-stay hospitals and introduce community care.
<p>Historically people with learning disabilities have been unable to lead the development of their services because some of them cannot communicate their thoughts, needs
<p>The Geneva initiative on Psychiatry (GIP) is an international organisation committed to the reform of mental health care provision in Central and Eastern Europe and the
<p>The following is an overview of a process that has been started by the Valuing People Support Team (VPST) to help people from various professional groups to consider th
<p>It has been argued that Ireland is atypical among its European neighbours in skewing healthcare provision towards the hospital sector and by denial of universal free ac
<p>In June 2000 I wrote an article for this journal titled ‘Pioneering spirit’ (LDP 2000, 3, 1, 4-8).
<p>There are about 210,000 people with severe learning disabilities in England, while about 1.2 million have mild or moderate disabilities (DoH 2001).
<p>Russian children with learning disabilities who are unlucky enough to be put in one of the state’s 155 ‘internats’ – all-purpose institutions for children living apart
<p>Issues relating to the sexuality of people with learning disabilities are receiving increasing attention from researchers and practitioners alike.
<p>The adoption of clinical governance in the health service is a vital strand in attempts to promote excellence in clinical care (DoH 1998).
<p>VULNERABILITY is not a condition we enjoy. It seems natural for us as individuals to seek to protect ourselves from that which might hurt us. The dictionary definition of vulnerability refers to a state of ‘being capable of physical or emotional wounding, hurt or exposure’.
<p>In the past the views of people with learning disabilities were often ignored. But that will soon change as representatives of the learning disabilities community challenge such outdated attitudes at a national level. This is the story of one such woman.</p>
<p>By virtue of their disability, people with learning disabilities are vulnerable to developing mental health problems (Hardy and Bouras 2002).
<p>If asked to think about the benefits of leisure, many people would link it to learning a skill, being creative and having the opportunity to meet new people.
<p>My first involvement with people with learning disabilities came during the 1970s, when I worked in a large hospital. Since then, there have been changes in terms of both the philosophy and the provision of services.
