Promoting access to services: the development of a new screening tool
The term ‘learning disability’ is a social construct whose defining characteristics...
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The term ‘learning disability’ is a social construct whose defining characteristics...
Using physical interventions to restrict people with learning disabilities has...
Every area of health care is increasingly under-pinned by the principle of evidence...
Parenting a child with severe learning disabilities can bring about many challenges...
The Valuing People White Paper confirmed that the general health of people with...
The Valuing People White Paper identified that ‘services and support to people with...
Down’s Syndrome Scotland received funding in 2003 from the Big Lottery Fund and the...
‘Sexuality’, when viewed in its broadest context, it is not just about sex in the...
People with severe and profound learning disabilities still represent one of the...
Learning disability nursing in Scotland can be considered to be facing some...
Neville Parkes used a focus group approach to explore what staff think about the...
people with learning disabilities have not, historically, been treated well by the...
At some point in their lives, most practitioners will have witnessed someone having...
Many people with a learning disability live in community settings supported by...
After finding some interesting research findings on the web from 40 years ago,...
Northgate and Prudhoe NHS Trust is a specialist trust catering for people with...
A report commissioned by The Children’s Society has enabled children to say what...
The Care Programme Approach (CPA) (DH 1990) was introduced when there was...