Learning disability nurses may be disheartened by NHS England’s reports on care failings at Cawston Park Hospital (pictured), but the reviews can spark much-needed change
As a nurse on the ground it can be easy to feel powerless in the face of huge, systemic issues in healthcare. Perhaps nowhere is this more acute than the field of learning disability nursing, which has been rocked by a series of scandals and high profile cases of poor practice over the past decade or so.
Learning Disability Practice. 26, 3, 6-8. doi: 10.7748/ldp.26.3.6.s2
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