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Hanging in the balance?

01 December 2007

Learning Disability Practice

Letter

Dear Editor, The Healthcare Commission national audit report on learning disabilities care in the NHS, titled A Life Like No Other, gives a devastating assessment of...

Nursing students should go to jail

24 November 1999

Nursing Standard

No limits

Nursing students go to jail.’ What a headline that would make. Nurses currently provide health care for 65,000 prisoners in England and Wales and, at present, the...

Leadership and support

05 May 1999

Nursing Standard

General article

A GREAT deal of excitement and debate has been generated among nurses by the publication of The Future Organisation of Prison Health Care. This is a real opportunity...

Raising the profile of nurses in the prison service

24 February 1999

Nursing Standard

Letter

The RCN council has been very forward thinking and visionary in agreeing to change the status of the prison nurses' group to that of a membership forum

Higher profile needed for learning disability practice

16 March 2010

Nursing Standard

Letter

I am concerned that colleagues of Frances Platt have advised her not to specialise in learning disability nursing (letters February 24).

Obituary

21 November 2006

Nursing Standard

Obituary

It is with sadness that I report Gill Hek RGN, CertEd (FE), died suddenly on November 4. Her contribution to prison nursing research was significant and of national...

We heard about exemplary work, but bad practice too

06 August 2008

Nursing Standard

Analysis

There has been a steady flow of distressing news regarding learning disability services in recent years, including much focus on Mencap’s Death by Indifference...

Student’s non-judgemental insight is a lesson to us all

02 December 2008

Nursing Standard

Letter

I was delighted to read Leah Susan Scott’s ‘Spoon number eight helped me to see humanity in a “monster”’ (starting out November 5).

Prison – no place for older people

02 August 2017

Nursing Standard

Opinion

Prisons and probation ombudsman Nigel Newcomen has called for a national strategy to address the healthcare needs of older people in prison. His report should be...

Access all areas

18 February 2015

Nursing Standard

Reflections

One of my objectives for early 2015 was to go ‘back to the floor’ to get a clear sense of the working lives of front line nurses in criminal justice settings,...