Learning disability

Hospital patients with learning disabilities are being let down by a lack of specialist nurses and other staff with skills in meeting their needs, a new report suggests.

The winner of a competition aimed at raising awareness of the nursing profession’s “forgotten” specialty has been announced.

Leading learning disability nurses have launched a new campaign, with the aid of social media platform TikTok, to try and get more young people aware of, and interested in, their “forgotten” branch of nursing.

A nurse is seeking to address the current lack of information on neurodiversity among the nursing workforce so that staff can receive better support.

The Queen’s Nursing Institute has launched new standards for six groups of community nurses alongside an accreditation programme for universities that use them to design courses.

Leading learning disability and continence care nurses have welcomed a new NHS England campaign that is aiming to improve recognition of life-threatening constipation in people with a learning disability.