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Counting the cost

01 October 2001

Learning Disability Practice

Opinion

I have a problem. I am being plagued by doubts about the viability of the post-White Paper world. This is only to be expected when major policy initiatives begin to...

Learning and sharing: toward a meaningful

01 April 1998

Learning Disability Practice

Discussions

In November 1993, when a revised version of the Mental Health Act Code of Practice came into force in England and Wales, there was no authority through which its...

Creating sense from chaos

01 March 2002

Learning Disability Practice

2nd opinion

Rumour has it that when prime minister Tony Blair stood up at the 1999 Nursing Standard Nurse of the Year Awards to announce details of the new role of ‘nurse...

Rough Justice: The law and human rights in the Russian Federation

01 February 2004

Learning Disability Practice

Book Review

There is always something of a dilemma when authors try to raise our awareness of suffering and systematic neglect in any form of human service. The danger is that...

A bright future

01 November 1999

Learning Disability Practice

Second opinion

The future for learning disability nurses is beginning to look bright, so long as a few matters of policy and practice fall into place. One of the effects of...

Voice of the people

01 December 2002

Learning Disability Practice

2nd opinion

I have heard so much about open and accountable government that I have begun to dismiss a lot of it as ‘spin’. It’s a personal view, but I think many observers of...

Life’s a beach

01 July 2002

Learning Disability Practice

Editorial

I am in a reflective mood. Having worked flat out (and who hasn’t?) for the last three months, I am about to take two weeks’ holiday. When I return to work in early...

Topics in nurse prescribing

01 September 2003

Learning Disability Practice

Book Review

What a good idea! A text that looks at the practical issues nurse prescribing can address and the means by which nurses, in their prescribing role, can organise and...

Are we needed?

01 February 2008

Learning Disability Practice

Letter

Dear Editor, In his article ‘Dearth by indifference’ (LDP 10, 9, 36), John Turnbull explained why he has reservations about proposals to end the pre-registration...

Foundation hospitals: threat or opportunity?

01 May 2003

Learning Disability Practice

2nd opinion

For the past three months, I have had a break from my post as an RCN nursing adviser in learning disabilities. During this time, I have been working in the RCN...