Problems attracting people into learning disability nursing training have “come to a head” and there is now a risk there will be an insufficient number of new nurses working in this field in the ...

Joint working between health and social care is all the rage but the field of learning difficulties has been pioneering a joint practitioner role since the 1980s. Dave Sims looks at new research on ...

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Annabell Downey’s breast cancer was diagnosed only after she collapsed and was taken to hospital — by which point it had already spread. Her experience highlights growing evidence that having a ...

For people with learning disabilities the world can be a bewildering and strange place to get to grips with, but in hospitals it can be even worse. Sometimes members of staff at a busy hospital simply ...

A nurse apprentice praised for her compassion and clinical excellence has been shortlisted for a prestigious national award. Emma Dowsett, a Registered Nurse Degree Apprentice in Learning Disability ...

NHS England has been working in collaboration with DanceSyndrome, a Lancashire-based charity with a mission to change the way that people think about learning disabilities, to launch a new film series ...