Nursing Standard
The challenges and rewards of nursing older people
June Andrews of the Dementia Services Development Trust on the unique qualities of older people's nurses
08 Jun 2016
Daniel Allen
Emergency Nurse
Failure to publish safe staffing guide for emergency departments ‘a damaging step back’
Plans to publish guidance on safe staffing levels in emergency departments (EDs) have been shelved after weeks of speculation about when or if the guidance will appear
07 Sep 2015
Nursing Management
Award winner leads programme striving to make births safer in Nigeria
It is eight years since nurse leader Chinomnso Ibe established the Traffina Foundation for Community Health (TFCH), a non-profit organisation that helps to reduce the high number of deaths from complications during pregnancy and delivery in Nigeria, her home country
26 Aug 2015
Nursing Management
Poor end of life care is clear theme in ombudsman’s report
A report from the parliamentary and health service ombudsman on ‘dying without dignity’ makes disturbing reading
01 Jul 2015
Learning Disability Practice
Cash control
So, a thumbs-up for individual budgets (IBs). Inevitably there are provisos, but evaluation of a series of IB pilot projects designed to give service users greater control over their social care indicates people with learning disabilities have much to gain.
01 Dec 2008
Learning Disability Practice
Criminal injustice
‘If you’re someone like me, they treat you like a piece of dirt. My dad is not an MP, my mum isn’t clever. I’m just a nobody and people can do what they like.’
01 Dec 2008
Learning Disability Practice
First, faltering steps to reform
The end of the beginning, perhaps? No one ever pretended that reforming England’s system of care and support could be achieved overnight, but this month marks the end of an early, significant stage.
01 Nov 2008
Learning Disability Practice
Staying alive
Seventy six per cent in favour is a big majority. There are caveats, but it seems that the learning disability branch programme of nurse education has overwhelming support.
01 Oct 2008
Learning Disability Practice
Off limits
Lauren was 24 when the sexual abuse began. She has mild to moderate learning disabilities but lives independently, with support. The carer who abused her gradually turned her against her other carers and began calling himself her boyfriend. Lauren became pregnant and subsequently had a child. The carer was eventually prosecuted.
01 Mar 2008
Learning Disability Practice
The Cornwall scandal:
It would not be unreasonable to expect that such practices were confined to the history books. After all, in no other area of health care would these abuses be found. While other patients and clients are offered the best that the 21st century can offer, people with learning disabilities, in some places at least, continue to be subjected to the sorts of ill-treatment that would make a Victorian asylum-keeper blush with shame.
01 Sep 2006
Learning Disability Practice
To boldly go...
What connects Chesterfield Foot-ball Supporters’ Society, Bulky Bob’s waste collection service in Liverpool and the Shetland Soap Company? The answer is that they are all social enterprises, and they may soon be joined by an NHS learning disability trust, which is planning to shed its current organisational shape and adopt a new form.
01 Jul 2006
Learning Disability Practice
Having a say
people with learning disabilities have not, historically, been treated well by the NHS. So says the government’s White Paper on health care outside hospital, published earlier this year. Campaign groups would agree. The obvious question, then, is whether Our Health, Our Care, Our Say will change anything.
01 Apr 2006
Learning Disability Practice
Opportunity knocks?
In December 2003, the prime minister’s strategy unit, which helps government departments to analyse major policy issues, launched a project to look at ways of improving the life chances of disabled people. Its aim was to assess the opportunities available to those with disabilities and how those opportunities might be improved.
01 Mar 2005
Nursing Standard
Community education and practice
A 'positive blueprint for change' is how the United Kingdom Central Council described its report on the future of community nurse education and practice (1). The consultation period ends on February 1 1992 and by then a range of interested bodies, from community psychiatric nurses’ to school nurses’ to consumer organisations, will have read, digested and discussed its contents. But with care in the community set to expand, the report has implications beyond those already working there. So what are the issues, and how does the UKCC intend to resolve them?
04 Dec 1991