Sitting in a lecture about public health, the lecturer, who is a midwife, starts talking about social care and asks the learning disabilities nurses to identify themselves. We put our hands up. Many ...

Learning disability nurses have been encouraged to apply for funding for a project that aims to improve access to urgent and emergency care for people with a learning disability. The funding call ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. -Credit:TEES, ESK AND WEAR VALLEYS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST Two Teesside nurses have received national awards for their work at a ...

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 ...

Joint working between health and social care is all the rage but the field of learning difficulties has been pioneering a joint practitioner role since the 1980s. Dave Sims looks at new research on ...

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 ...

Students studying Learning Disability Nursing at De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) have joined forces with their course lecturer Sam Humphrey to draft a new nursing pocket guide. Adele Bunten and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dreaming of a new career? Each week, we speak to someone from a different profession to discover what it's really like. Today, the ...

NHS England has been working in collaboration with DanceSyndrome, an Accrington-based charity with a mission to change the way that people think about learning disabilities. DanceSyndrome was ...

Learning Disability student nurses from DMU, along with Senior Lecturer Justine Barksby, will be raising money for charity by taking part in The Great Nottinghamshire Bike Ride on Sunday 23 June. This ...