A leading learning disability nurse has been appointed by the Royal College of Nursing to help the body explore how it can best support learning disability nursing and address key challenges in the ...

A set of voluntary standards to help support and encourage community learning disability nurse education and practice across the UK have been launched by leading nursing charities. The new document ...

More hospital patients with learning disabilities will die if politicians do not tackle the “devastating collapse” in specialist nurse numbers, a leading charity and a union have warned. The number of ...

A learning disability nurse from NHS Lanarkshire was awarded her Queen’s Nurse award at a special ceremony in Edinburgh this week. Carole Morrow, a senior nurse in learning disabilities, was nominated ...

NHS England has been working in collaboration with DanceSyndrome, a Lancashire-based charity with a mission to change the way that people think about learning disabilities, to launch a new film series ...

Hartlepool Borough Council has joined a fight to protect learning disability nursing and will lobby the government to tackle the "crisis" it faces.

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(MENAFN- Pressat) NHS England has been working in collaboration with DanceSyndrome, a Lancashire-based charity with a mission to change the way that people think about learning disabilities, to launch ...

Discover a route to two highly rewarding careers by studying Occupational Therapy or nursing for those with learning disabilities at Edinburgh Napier University. The university in the heart of ...

The assessment for dementia is best done by a multidisciplinary team. They should all be specialists in learning disabilities, apart from the GP, who may not be a specialist. This team is likely to ...