The draft consultation for guidance on the Down Syndrome Act 2022 so far fails to recognise the importance of learning disability nurses in the health and wellbeing of people with Down's syndrome.

Funding of up to £30,000 is available from the RCN Foundation for research projects by learning disability nurses in Wales on ...

A leading learning disability nurse has been appointed by the Royal College of Nursing to help the body explore how it can best support learning disability nursing and address key challenges in the ...

The creation of an “enhanced apprenticeship” is one of the solutions being considered by Health Education England to address a desperate shortage of learning disability nurses, which risks harming ...

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, an Accrington-based charity with a mission to change the way that people think about learning disabilities. DanceSyndrome was ...

Rebecca Sams and Lynsey Regan, Community learning disability nurses, from the Community Intellectual and Developmental Disability services, Esther Jenkinson, Service lead, in Childrens Community ...

Those with the greatest financial concerns were up to seven times more likely to meet screening criteria for depression. “The ...

I brooded with premonitions. Small in stature but bulging pregnantly on a walk through the woods, I had the horrible thought: “What if something is wrong with him?” He was my fourth child. I’d worried ...