Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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<p>From the publication of the Briggs Report (HMSO 1972) until the early 1990s, a question mark existed over the viability and relevance of learning disability nursing.
<p>Service provision for supporting of people with learning disabilities who are at risk of suicide, or who have attempted suicide must be one of the least explored issues
<p>There is an increasing awareness of the importance of the emotional and social lives of people with learning disability (Gardner 1997).
<p>Kathleen Fray had Down’s syndrome and later developed dementia.
<p>Recent care policies and philosophies for people with a learning disability stress their individuality and human rights (Tyne and O’Brien 1981), especially the right to
<p>Despite successive government policies that emphasise user-involvement and social inclusion, paternalistic attitudes in service provision for vulnerable adults persist.
<p>The advent of community care and the closure of long stay hospitals for people with learning disabilities have transferred responsibility for primary health care provis
<p>This article describes a range of group work interventions undertaken by the Portsmouth Community Nursing Team and addresses questions of both clinical and cost effecti
<p>Project 2000 was heralded as the best way to educate and train nurses and midwives in the future.
<p>Most supported living schemes are based on the ordinary living model and are described in An Ordinary Life (King’s Fund 1980).
<p>A common reason for referrals being made to health staff working in learning disability services is challenging behaviour (McKenzie et al 1999).
<p>Research by Thompson (1990) has shown that attitudes towards sexuality among professionals have become even more conservative over the last 17 years.
<p>Lifestyle Planning (LP), in the broadest sense, concerns the organisation and monitoring of ongoing social, educational and health support for individuals.
<p>The aim this article is to explore some of the issues in health promotion for people with a learning disability in order to identify strategies that can result in people feeling more empowered.
<p>While the number of people with learning disability living into old age is increasing, little is known about how older people with a learning disability view their changing needs or how service providers respond to their users’ advancing years.
<p>Learning disability nurses, arguably, often feel like square pegs in round holes as neither the medical nor the social model of care is adopted exclusively as the basis for the profession (Kay et al 1995).
<p>With a general shift from hospital-based to community-based care for people with learning disabilities, the debate has raged as to the role of the learning disability nurse (RNLD).
<p>Underpinning good health education practice is the need for specialist community learning disability nurses to exploit ‘opportunistic’ learning experiences and to promote preventive healthcare strategies.
