Greater recognition is needed of the part learning disability nurses can play in addressing health inequalities among vulnerable people and understanding early signs of health deterioration, to reduce ...

A nursing student and community nurse are marking Learning Disability Nursing Day today by celebrating the field of nursing that first brought them together as friends. Emma Hughes, a first-year ...

Over the past two decades huge improvements have been made in the way services are delivered to people with learning disabilities – and learning disability nurses have played a leading role. Key ...

'Learning disability nurses are important because they believe in you and help you speak up, loud.' That was the message from 38-year-old James Massey, from Lowestoft, as 100 years of learning ...

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

A SHORTAGE of specialist learning disability nurses could be putting lives at risk, a report published today warns. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) found that the number of learning disability ...

A year-long pilot which has seen mental health nurses working in Suffolk doctors’ surgeries to improve care for patients with learning disabilities has been permanently commissioned due to its success ...

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 ...

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said that the number of learning disability nurses in England has risen by just 22 in the last three years. A report from the RCN warns that across all nursing roles ...

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 NHS is facing a return to the “Victorian era” when it comes to learning disability care because of a critical shortage of specialist nurses made worse by Tory cuts to student bursaries, experts ...