Learning disability nursing. Improving primary health care for people with learning disabilities.

'Signposts for Success' (Department of Health (DoH), 1998a) states that specialist learning disability services (SpLDS) must promote liaisons with, and offer specialist advice to, primary healthcare teams (PHCTS). With the advent primary care groups (DoH, 1998b), genuine collaboration and partnershi...

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Publicado en:British Journal of Nursing Vol. 8; no. 18; pp. 1216 - 1222
Autor principal: Bollard M
Formato: tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Mark Allen Holdings Limited 10/14/99
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          Physical Examination
          Intellectual Disability Nursing
          Office Nursing
          Funding Source
          Interviews
          Pretest-Posttest Design
          Questionnaires
          Descriptive Statistics
          Semi-Structured Interview
          Audiorecording
          Primary Health Care
          Adult
          Middle Age
          Aged
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Middle Aged: 45-64 years
          Aged: 65+ years
      ab: 'Signposts for Success' (Department of Health (DoH), 1998a) states that specialist learning disability services (SpLDS) must promote liaisons with, and offer specialist advice to, primary healthcare teams (PHCTS). With the advent primary care groups (DoH, 1998b), genuine collaboration and partnership-forging is necessary and timely to prevent people with learning disabilities being excluded from healthcare services. The project described in the article had three broad aims: first, to establish a practice register of people with learning disabilities in all practices involved in the project; second, to enable practice nurses (PNs), with support, to carry out a systematic health check within the practice of people with learning disabilities; and third, to enable the project nurse to act as a crucial link between SpLDS and the PHCT. The health checks highlighted unmet health and social needs, which were then met through appropriate referral and intervention, mainly to specialist services. Follow ups were conducted to measure any health gain as a result of the applied interventions. Evidence of health gain was revealed, painting to the clinical effectiveness of performing such checks within the PHCTs.
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