Dr. Genevieve Breau and colleagues at the University of Greenwich (London, UK) are currently interviewing learning disabilities nurses across the UK about their experiences recommending breast, cervical, and bowel cancer screening to their patients with learning disabilities.

If you are a learning disabilities nurse in the UK, and you are interested in learning more about the study, please contact Genevieve at G.Breau@gre.ac.uk. If you wanted to participate, you would need to provide consent and a brief demographics form, and participate in a 30-40 minute interview on Microsoft Teams at a mutually convenient time. All nurses who participate are given a £20 shopping voucher.

This study is now closed, however some of Genny’s work can be found by clicking here.  

Canterbury Christchurch University in partnership with Kent and Medway Partnership Trust have this week advertised a new short term role to develop education for health and care professionals relating to people with learning disabilities with local people and service providers. 

Closing date for this Clinical Academic role is 19th December.

Further details of the role can be found by clicking here.

On 30th November the Community welcomed Anna, Cally and Rachel from NDTi to present their findings from the ‘Making sure health professionals have the training they need to support people with a learning disability’ project undertaken in the South East. The recording and slide set are available below, for further information please check the NDTi website.