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National forensic learning disability conference

01 December 2002

Learning Disability Practice

Conference report

Issues in forensic learning disabilities are under-researched and have a low priority, despite the pressing need to provide services for this population. The trust’s...

One big talking shop that offers quality and quantity

01 July 2004

Learning Disability Practice

Conference report

This year’s congress, the largest dedicated to all matters involving intellectual disability (to use conference language) had 13 themes, ranging from the influence...

World congress continues its tradition of promoting mutual understanding

01 July 2004

Learning Disability Practice

Conference report

With over 1,000 delegates from around the world gathering to choose from over 900 presentations concerning learning disability in six days -it could only have been...

People with learning disabilities neglected by criminal justice system

01 June 2004

Learning Disability Practice

Conference report

Services caring for people with a learning disability who have committed an offence, or are seen as a danger to the general public, fall between many stools. That...

Least restrictive environments are ‘vital’, delegates told

01 June 2004

Learning Disability Practice

Conference report

Various government policies on learning disabilities (for example, England’s Valuing People White Paper) have failed to address forensic issues in a coherent way....

'Invidious nature' of ageism

01 November 1993

Elderly Care

Conference report

Nurses need to recognise the insidious nature of ageism and how it influences nursing practice, John Bond, Director of the Centre for Health Services Research at the...

Every nurse is ‘a nurse for older people’

01 November 1993

Elderly Care

Conference report

Many elderly patients are receiving inadequate care because non-specialist nurses are ill-prepared to meet their needs, RCN General Secretary Christine Hancock told...

Radical rethink about homes

01 November 1993

Elderly Care

Conference report

Nursing home manager Linda Nazarko called for a radical rethink about the function and role of nursing homes. She told the conference that rehabilitation was just as...

Community care — the ‘great perhaps’?

01 May 1987

Elderly Care

Conference report

There is a great myth that community care is failing in this country, but the truth is that it has hardly started, said Christopher Heglnbothom, director of MIND....

Making a reality of community care — What the Audit Commission report says

01 May 1987

Elderly Care

Conference report

There has been slow and uneven progress towards community care in Britain during the past 15 years but time to implement a properly planned programme is now running...