The National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) and My Life My Choice are doing some research into romantic relationships for people with learning disabilities.
Category: learning disability
Healthwatch Kent
In 2017 Healthwatch Kent partnered with East Kent Mencap to proactively gather feedback from people with learning difficulties. They heard from 153 people about their experience.
SCIE: Effective record keeping and ordering of medicines
A quick guide for home care managers providing medicines support
Adults may need support to manage their medicines safely and effectively, and for some people this will be provided as part of a home care service. This quick guide covers two important aspects of medicines support – record keeping and checking and ordering medicines.
VODG:Preparing to visit a doctor to talk about psychotropic medication
This resource is a guide for a support worker who is accompanying a person with a learning disability, autism or both to a GP consultation appointment to talk about psychotropic medication. It has been produced as part of the STOMP healthcare campaign to stop over medication.
Nursing Notes: Loss of learning disability nurses could see return to ‘Victorian’ institutions, warns RCN
Since the removal of funding for nursing education, learning disabilities has been hard hit.
