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Why nurses should focus on service users’ sight problems

27 June 2014

Learning Disability Practice

Analysis

SIGHT LOSS involving short- or long-sightedness, or more serious visual problems, is common in people with learning disabilities. The Royal National Institute of...

A project that plans for life after school is getting results

01 May 2010

Learning Disability Practice

Analysis

THE TRANSITION from children’s to adult health and social care services has always been difficult, especially for young people with complex support needs. Despite...

Inspectors want reasonable adjustments

29 October 2014

Learning Disability Practice

Analysis

ONE OF the recommendations of the Confidential Inquiry into Premature Deaths of People with Learning Disabilities (Heslop et al 2013) is the ‘clear identification of...

Service users help to create benchmark

01 October 2010

Learning Disability Practice

Analysis

NHS LONDON has issued a new benchmark document describing best practice in health care for vulnerable people (NHS London 2010). It was developed with the help of...

Families under strain

27 March 2017

Learning Disability Practice

Analysis

It’s not inevitable that the parents of children with a learning disability have poorer quality relationships,’ says Mencap’s policy and strategic lead for children...

Getting the message across to the people who need to see it

26 March 2014

Learning Disability Practice

Analysis

CAMPAIGNS TO change public health behaviour through education, sometimes backed up with legislation, have a difficult task to fulfil, and there are disagreements...

More than end of life care

08 March 2011

Learning Disability Practice

Feature

Hospice care is shifting away from dealing solely with end of life issues to helping families live with children with life-limiting conditions. Many of the children...

How grassroots action empowered a multicultural community

08 February 2011

Learning Disability Practice

Feature

Set up in 2007, Beeston Action for Families is a multiracial group of families with adults who have a learning disability in Leeds who get together to share...

Look beyond the symptoms to help services users, report urges

01 September 2010

Mental Health Practice

Analysis

HEALTH PROFESSIONALS do their best to treat patients, but they do not always look beyond the symptoms presented to acknowledge their patients’ social and economic...

Enabling children with complex health needs to stay with their families in the community

11 February 2015

Nursing Children and Young People

Analysis

‘I HEARD someone ask a mum I work with recently what we do and she told them “they’re my cheerleaders”. When families say things like that, you realise it is worth...