‘I enjoy supporting people to reach their full potential’

Using the hub and spoke student placement model in learning disability settings

Alex McClimens, Jacqui Brewster

Understanding of the Care Act 2014 among carers of adults with learning disabilities

Valerie Gant

Supporting people across the lifespan: the role of learning disability nurses

Ruth Northway, Karen Cushing, Sharon Duffin, Tyler Payne, Pepsi Price, Kevin Sutherland

Meet Melanie Davies – RCN Nurse of the Year

Elaine Cole

‘We need all of you and more of you’

Christine Walker

Parents and Digital Technology: How to Raise the Connected Generation

Michelle Templeton

Autism Supporting Difficulties: Handbook of Ideas to Reduce Anxiety in Everyday Situations

Jo Ball

Developing learning disability nursing

Ruth Wyn Williams, Liz Gouveia, Lois Wiggins

Closing hospitals is not the answer to our problems

Jonathan Beebee

An open letter to the prime minister

Wendy Johnson

Spare the humiliation

David O’Driscoll

Using creative methods to encourage participatory research

Stacey Atkinson

What people with learning disabilities want from us

Stacey Atkinson

Prevention of Alzheimer’s disease in people with Down’s syndrome

Stacey Atkinson

Nurses buoyant despite NHS cuts, staff survey reveals

Christian Duffin

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Drop in student places on learning disability undergraduate courses since 2015

HCA ‘honoured’ by prestigious award

Boost for graduate nursing recruits

Specialist hospital set to close in 2019

England’s CNO defends £10 million transfer delay

Chris Longhurst

Celebrating the work of learning disability nurses

Christine Walker