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<p>What connects Chesterfield Foot-ball Supporters’ Society, Bulky Bob’s waste colle
<p>Services for people with learning disabilities have seen massive changes over the
<p>The term ‘learning disability’ is a social construct whose defining characteristi
<p>Using physical interventions to restrict people with learning disabilities has al
<p>Every area of health care is increasingly under-pinned by the principle of eviden
<p>Parenting a child with severe learning disabilities can bring about many challeng
<p>The Valuing People White Paper confirmed that the general health of people with l
<p>The Valuing People White Paper identified that ‘services and support to people wi
<p>Down’s Syndrome Scotland received funding in 2003 from the Big Lottery Fund and t
<p>‘Sexuality’, when viewed in its broadest context, it is not just about sex in the
<p>people with learning disabilities have not, historically, been treated well by th
<p>People with severe and profound learning disabilities still represent one of the
<p>Learning disability nursing in Scotland can be considered to be facing some difficult times.
<p>Neville Parkes used a focus group approach to explore what staff think about the expression of sexuality among people with learning disabilities</p>
<p>At some point in their lives, most practitioners will have witnessed someone having an epileptic episode. Epilepsy is one of the commonest neurological conditions with a prevalence in the general population of around five per 1,000.
<p>Many people with a learning disability live in community settings supported by social care staff.
<p>After finding some interesting research findings on the web from 40 years ago, pointing to the beneficial effects of a drug, dimethylglycine, on children with autism, Ada Montgomery (pictured) set up a small trial herself.
<p>Northgate and Prudhoe NHS Trust is a specialist trust catering for people with disability, including learning disability. As one of the UK’s largest providers of care for people with a learning disability it currently employs 400 Registered Learning Disability Nurses (RNLDs).
