Analysis
Movement on nurse shortages and a pay battle not quite won: what’s in store for 2018
Nursing experts give their views on issues likely to shape the profession’s agenda in the...
06 Dec 2017
Community learning disabilities and autism team halves inpatient admissions
An overhaul of care for people in the West Midlands with learning disabilities and autism...
30 Aug 2017
How one study – IDS-TILDA – is leading the way in understanding the needs of an ageing...
As the numbers of ageing populations continue to rise, a new study, abbreviated to IDS-TILDA...
11 Jul 2017
Nurses buoyant despite staff cuts eroding job satisfaction
Learning disability nurses are struggling to do their jobs properly because of inadequate...
08 May 2017
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