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Secondary health care for people with learning disabilities

30 July 2003

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

The current evidence base shows that people with learning disabilities experience difficulties in identifying and meeting their own specific health needs, and in...

user-friendly information: does it convey what it intends?

01 February 2008

Learning Disability Practice

A&S Science

The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 was intended to end the discrimination that many face when using public services. It first introduced the concept of...

using direct observation to assess satisfaction

01 February 2008

Learning Disability Practice

A&S Science

Good practice in meeting service users’ needs and wishes is acknowledged as being central to all services (NHS Executive 1998). In 2001, the Department of Health...

‘Going cognitive’: CBT for people with learning disabilities

06 October 2008

Learning Disability Practice

A&S Science

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is fast becoming the therapy of choice for many people suffering from psychological problems. Within the market economy of...

commissioning services: laying the tracks as the train is coming?

01 November 2007

Learning Disability Practice

A&S Science

Commissioning is a complex process. Since the early 1990s the NHS and local authorities in the UK have been required to assess the health and social needs of people...

RNLDplus: enhancing student knowledge and experience

23 July 2008

Learning Disability Practice

A&S Science

This article describes the innovative way in which Oxford Brookes University has responded to recent trends in the delivery of services by registered learning...

Nurses’ views about services for older people with learning disabilities

22 April 2009

Nursing Older People

Feature

Aim To explore nurses’ views of the strengths and weaknesses of current patterns of service provision for older people with learning disabilities in relation to...

Nurses’ views about services for older people with learning disabilities

03 April 2009

Learning Disability Practice

Feature

Aim To explore nurses’ views of the strengths and weaknesses of current patterns of service provision for older people with learning disabilities in relation to...

‘Too young to die!’ A cognitive behavioural approach to dealing with ‘death anxiety’

13 September 2008

Learning Disability Practice

A&S Science

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is seen as a therapy of choice, with a successful evidence base for anxiety, depression, obsessions, post-traumatic stress,...