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Lord Darzi’s investigation of the state of the NHS in England highlights the decline in numbers of learning disability nurses and health inequalities

Lord Darzi's report on the state of the NHS in England highlights that the numbers of

26 Sep 2024
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Patients can be misled when the word ‘nurse’ is part of the title of a non-registered role

Misleading job titles in nursing imply our work is so minor that being a nurse amounts to

16 Sep 2024
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Nurse retention: steep rise in newly registered nurses quitting profession means action is needed to boost morale and reduce burnout

Nurse retention, burnout and low morale are challenges with a deliciously simple solution

13 Aug 2024
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A learning disability liaison nurse talks to an older person in a hospital bed

People with learning disabilities and autism can die decades earlier than the general popu

25 Jul 2024
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Smiling nurse helps patient get up from bed, showing how ward nurse intervention is important in preventing inpatient falls

It’s heartening to hear how some hospital nurses have all-but eliminated falls on their wa

23 Jul 2024
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Image shows a member of healthcare staff facing an open cupboard and holding a plastic bottle of medication

Nurse’s six-month suspension for taking paracetamol tablets from a ward supply is hard to

02 Jul 2024
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Illustration shows a woman with grey hair sitting cross-legged with a circular gynaecological clock in her lap  

People with learning disabilities face distinct health and well-being challenges as they a

05 Jun 2024
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Blurred image of healthcare professionals moving at high speed with a hospital trolley along a corridor, suggesting the time and workload pressures facing emergency department staff

It’s not hard to imagine the terrible pressures in the emergency department where care fai

14 May 2024
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A nurse uses a book with pictures to help explain a medical intervention to a person with a learning disability

 Experts with lived experience of having a learning disability offer advice on the im

02 Apr 2024
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Illustration showing two nursing team members in uniform standing pointing at a huge shift roster, as if discussing filling or swapping shifts

Nurses expect workload demands and pressures to influence shifts and rosters, but there ha

19 Mar 2024
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A nurse stands in front of a line of other nurses, looking happy and confident. Yet nurses often downplay their role

Managing high-stakes, safety-critical situations is a daily reality in nursing, yet some o

20 Feb 2024
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Time for change written in sand on a beach

The title learning disability nurse has been used since the 1990s, but some feel the field

05 Feb 2024

Jonathan Beebee asks whether the profession needs a more contemporary title to reflect chan

01 Feb 2024

Using nurses as cash cows for driving to work, and worse, hitting them with fines if they s

16 Jan 2024

In future people with learning disabilities could be granted euthanasia requests too easily

04 Jan 2024

New rules to prevent overseas staff bringing family to the UK send a hostile message to wor

03 Jan 2024

Health passports were designed to address health inequalities for autistic people and help

20 Dec 2023

Experiences that nurses have as patients themselves can inform their practice as well as he

06 Dec 2023

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