Analysis
Exclusive: Decline in degree places for learning disability nursing
Despite a call for more front-line staff after the Winterbourne View scandal and high demand...
11 Apr 2017
Exclusive: Nursing Standard-Sunday Mirror survey reveals realities of front-line nursing
Almost 60% of nurses feel stressed all or most of the time, according to an exclusive...
19 Mar 2017
How a child with learning disabilities can strain family relationships
A new report takes a closer look at how parents of children with a learning disability...
01 Mar 2017
Learning disability nurses worried about education review
After the Willis review, what are Health Education England's priorities?
23 Jun 2016
Health Equalities Framework creators win learning disability category at 2016 Nurse...
A team of four consultant nurses who created the Health Equalities Framework (HEF) was named...
25 May 2016
Nursing students urged to build a global network
Colin Parish reports from this year’s Positive Choices learning disability nursing students...
26 Apr 2016
First wave of nurses apply for revalidation
By the beginning of this month, the first nurses to use the new revalidation system will...
29 Mar 2016
Government still to honour its promise to transform services
A true picture of the state of care for people with learning disabilities, and of the...
29 Mar 2016
Resource packs help allay patient fears about GP visits
Primary care patients with learning disabilities in Doncaster are benefiting from new GP...
29 Feb 2016
CNO sets priorities for the nursing profession
For more than a year England’s chief nursing officer Jane Cummings has been in charge of the...
26 Jan 2016
Nurses crucial to success of Transforming Care programme
A national plan to move people with learning disabilities from hospital settings into the...
30 Nov 2015
Spotting trauma before it leads to drama
Monica O'Carroll has learned to consider the ‘bigger picture’ when dealing with a client who...
30 Nov 2015
Poor advice exposes children to risk of sexual abuse
Children with learning disabilities are more vulnerable to sexual exploitation than other...
02 Nov 2015
England’s chief nurse seeks views on strategy
Over the next few weeks, England’s chief nursing officer Jane Cummings and her team will...
02 Nov 2015
Delivering compassionate care in the criminal justice system
How do nurses care compassionately for someone locked up for violence, rape or murder? What...
28 Sep 2015
Supporting the needs of offenders
NHS England has published a guide to advise all prison healthcare staff on the main points...
28 Sep 2015