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Primary planning
- Author:
- THORNTON Cynthia
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 23.3.94, 1994, pp.65-66.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Argues the case for improving nurse education to help meet the health-care needs of people with learning disabilities living in the community
Meeting the health care needs of people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- THORNTON Cynthia
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 14.5.97, 1997, pp.52-54.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
This article looks at the findings of a study on how primary health care teams saw the health care needs of people with learning disabilities and how those needs were being met. Among the issues discussed is the significance of relevant education in an interdisciplinary setting and the potential shift of some specialist community learning disability nurses to the primary health care team.