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Using simple fixes to help patients access the best care
Healthcare Assistant Award winner gives a voice to people with learning disabilities
Learning disability nursing award for nurse who is bringing care closer to home
Tracey Hartley-Smith's specialist support service for children with learning...
RCN chair: Adamant nurses must use their voice
RCN chair Maria Trewern is full of hope for the profession – and wants to give members more...
Hand hygiene needn’t mean sore skin
A new guide from the RCN shows how to combine hand hygiene with skin care
Biometrics and autism: wristband technology could transform service-users’ lives
Leading charity Autism Together has set up the UK’s first trial of wristbands measuring...
Getting staffing right is the aim of new NHS Improvement guidance but will it work?
How far will a new resource, designed for NHS commissioners and providers, go in helping to...
Charities to launch initiative ahead of World Neurofibromatosis Awareness Day
The Neuro Foundation and sister charities set to launch 'light up' campaigns to raise...
Framework for change: supporting you to drive improvement
The Leading Change, Adding Value framework for nursing, midwifery and care staff is halfway...
Observing nursing practice on placement in Romania
When nursing students Eve Buckley, Nicole Sparham and Shelby Small did their elective...
Field of practice: the Positive Behaviour Support festival
A one-day festival explored the use of Positive Behaviour Support to ensure people with...
Preparing for a new model of care in the community
Calderstones Hospital turned things round after a damning report in 2013 but now it is...
Person-centred care for clients at the end of life
A team of learning disability nurses has created an end of life care package for clients...
EXCLUSIVE: Future strategies for behaviour that challenges
Nurses need to know appropriate clinical range when taking observations
How 'seeing the person not the disability' can make a difference for all...
Video highlights from Positive Choices 2017
'We need all of you and more of you' - CNO tells LD conference
Combating student attrition and encouraging more people into learning disability nurses were