A new heritage project aims to dispel misconceptions about learning disability and the lives of people who lived in long-stay institutions. The charity CASBA (Citizen Advocacy South Birmingham Area) spent a year collating stories and archive material relating to Birmingham’s Monyhull Hospital.
Month: October 2018
Professor Andre Strydom’s Inaugural Lecture: Alzheimer’s and Down Syndrome: removing the roadblocks for testing new treatments
Wed 14 November | 17:30 – 18:30 | Wolfson Lecture Theatre, IoPPN Main Building, Denmark Hill Campus
WeLDNurses: RNLD summit: documenting workforce challenges
WeLDNurses were invited to document the RNLD summit in the summer, which was called to consider the well documented workforce challenges relating in learning disability nursing.
They have compiled as 5 minute audio clip of interviews at the event of a cross section of nurses documenting the reasons they became nurses and the difference they realised they could make.
Full details are on the WeCommunities site:at http://www.wecommunities.org/blogs/3430 while the audio is available directly at https://soundcloud.com/weldnurses/rnldsummit-31-7-18
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