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<p>Care providers need to do more to acknowledge that challenging sexual behaviour i
<p>There are few issues in the field of learning disabilities on which everyone - go
<p>Choice is increasingly taking centre stage of the modernisation agenda within the
<p>Beginning with case studies about planning, we describe the planning styles that
<p>Orem’s self-care deficit nursing theory (Orem 2001) is widely used and accepted b
Exploring Orem’s self-care model in learning disability nursing: Practical application paper: part 2
<p>The development of nursing knowledge has been a theme in general nursing literatu
<p>With the closure of the majority of the long-stay learning disability hospitals a
<p> T he conference, which built on a similar event held last year in London, aimed
<p>The Scottish Executive is currently considering the implications of a new groundb
<p>The primary aim of this article is to share a multidisciplinary model for risk as
<p>When first contemplating writing this article we considered what aspect of person
<p>Risk assessment and risk management have been on the government’s agenda since th
<p>It has long been recognised that good quality services for people with a learning disability offer a mixture of professional staff who provide primary care and specialist services with direct care staff supporting people in their homes and day placements.
<p>The CPA policy can be the traced back to the proposals to close the network of long-stay hospitals and introduce community care. With the decrease in hospital provision it was necessary to develop systems to support people with mental health problems living in the community.
<p>Historically people with learning disabilities have been unable to lead the development of their services because some of them cannot communicate their thoughts, needs and wishes.
<p>The Geneva initiative on Psychiatry (GIP) is an international organisation committed to the reform of mental health care provision in Central and Eastern Europe and the New Independent States (CCEE/NIS).
<p>The following is an overview of a process that has been started by the Valuing People Support Team (VPST) to help people from various professional groups to consider their role in relation to person centred planning (PCP).
<p>It has been argued that Ireland is atypical among its European neighbours in skewing healthcare provision towards the hospital sector and by denial of universal free access to primary health care at the point of use (Wren 2003).
