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<p>A report commissioned by The Children’s Society has enabled children to say what
<p>The Care Programme Approach (CPA) (DH 1990) was introduced when there was increas
<p>Although people with learning disabilities face an increased vulnerability to dev
<p>A high frequency of exposure to violence has been described among caregivers work
<p>Incontinence tends to be viewed as integral to having severe learning disabilitie
<p>Even though challenging behaviour is common among people with learning disabiliti
<p>The Valuing People White Paper (Department of Health 2001a) states that: ‘Childre
<p>In the first part of this article, I evaluated personal outcomes in light of rece
<p>Healthcare provision is constantly responding to changes in technology, demograph
<p>Reflection and reflective practice are said to be beneficial to nurses (NMC 2002)
<p>Recent years have witnessed many changes in services for learning disability clie
<p>Learning disability services throughout the country are having to meet the challe
<p>Obesity is headline news and will probably remain so for some time. Obesity levels have tripled over the past 20 years, with one man in four and one woman in five now classified as obese.
<p>The need to meet the healthcare needs of people with a learning disability is increasingly being highlighted.
<p>In 2000, there were an estimated 6.6 million ‘long-term’ disabled people of working age in the UK (Woolnough 2001). People with learning disabilities account for a small but significant minority of this population.
<p>Developing services for people with learning disabilities who misuse alcohol or drugs is not a seen as a priority by providers. Few researchers have focused on the aetiology, prevention and treatment of alcohol and drug abuse in this area (McGillicuddy and Blane 1999).
<p>Despite the many and varied reports and policy recommendations about how to improve health care for people with learning disabilities, not much work has been done in primary care to address the social exclusion of this group and to embrace them within mainstream services (Mencap 2004).&l
<p>Changes in service provision for people with a learning disability over the years have been accompanied by changes in terminology. Terms such as ‘idiot’, ‘imbecile’ and ‘subnormal’ were used in the past to refer to what we now call a learning disability.
