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Hope for the future

06 December 2012

Emergency Nurse

Opinion

As 2012 draws to an end, emergency nurses across the UK are trying to cope with patients who have higher clinical acuity, as well as with increasing trolley waits...

Trauma centre status

08 November 2012

Emergency Nurse

Opinion

In March, the hospital in which I work, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB), was designated a major trauma centre and is equipped to treat some of the most...

All in a name

01 February 2007

Learning Disability Practice

Opinion

As part of creating a positive therapeutic relationship, healthcare professionals normally establish whether services users would rather be addressed by their first...

Winners and losers

01 October 2008

Learning Disability Practice

Opinion

I saw the comic Laurence Clarke do a routine once about his least favourite word. As a stand-up comedian with cerebral palsy Laurence has unique stage presence: he...

Get streetwise

01 December 2009

Learning Disability Practice

Opinion

YOU KNOW how it is. You sit at your computer waiting ages for an online learning disability soap opera to appear, then two come along at once. Haddon Street left the...

Disability on the box

01 March 2010

Learning Disability Practice

Opinion

FOR FANS of disability on the box the end of 2009 brought a glut of goodies. James Partridge of the Changing Faces charity got to read the Five News lunchtime...

Viewpoint

01 March 2010

Learning Disability Practice

Opinion

YOU SAY you want a revolution well, you know, we all want to change the world. In my quieter moments I can remember as a student thinking I could single-handedly...

Liberating legislation

01 July 2010

Learning Disability Practice

Opinion

When the organisation I was working for began to implement the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) three years ago, I found it to be a liberating piece of legislation....

Fake plastic trees

01 July 2010

Learning Disability Practice

Opinion

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the dissemination of research can be a filthy, dirty business. Nevertheless, someone has to do it. And whether this be in...

One change, many possibilities

27 June 2016

Learning Disability Practice

Opinion

One of the biggest lessons I have learned at university is to celebrate what you do and the difference your practice makes to someone’s life. The smallest of changes...