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Emergency care staff receive guidance on suicide prevention

08 November 2012

Emergency Nurse

Analysis

Care services minister Norman Lamb has declared that mental and physical health are of equal importance (Department of Health 2012).

The financial implications of a cancer diagnosis

09 February 2012

Cancer Nursing Practice

General

Many patients undergoing treatment for, or affected by, cancer will incur unforeseen expenditure, such as extra travel costs, assistance with activities of daily...

Helping clients with their welfare benefits

04 December 2009

Learning Disability Practice

Feature

Although people with learning disabilities may be entitled to a number of welfare benefits depending on their employment situation and their personal wealth, they...

Prevention of aggression is key to its management

01 October 2010

Mental Health Practice

Analysis

BETWEEN 2008 and 2009 there were almost 55,000 reports of physical assaults on NHS staff working in England. More than 70 per cent of these assaults were said to...

‘Binge drinking’ among mothers raises number of children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder

25 February 2013

Learning Disability Practice

Analysis

The rising number of children diagnosed with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) has been likened by one expert to a ‘tidal wave’.

Helping women escape abuse and violence in the home

30 April 2012

Learning Disability Practice

Analysis

Beverley Lewis House is a unique haven, the only refuge in the UK exclusively for women with learning disabilities who are escaping, or at risk of, domestic abuse or...

Era of greater openness in mental capacity judgements

08 September 2011

Learning Disability Practice

Analysis

People with learning disabilities have been prevented from having sex, and forced to undergo medical treatment, including sterilisation against their will, by a...

Mental ill health among former military personnel may be ‘media-led myth’

01 February 2011

Mental Health Practice

Analysis

If recent newspaper headlines are to be believed, a high proportion of the UK’s armed forces return home from Afghanistan or Iraq as nervous wrecks or heavy...

Government’s benefit reforms raise qualification hurdles

01 October 2013

Learning Disability Practice

Analysis

THE OVERHAUL of the welfare benefits system will affect anyone with a learning disability who is of working age and who claims a disability or income-based benefit,...

How welfare changes will affect people with mental health problems

29 October 2011

Mental Health Practice

Feature

The government is pressing ahead with a radical overhaul of the welfare system motivated, it says, by a determination to ensure that claimants are no longer ‘written...

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