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🤩 Excited to have been asked to be part of the judging panel for this year’s #NursingTimesAwards
✍️ Still time to get an entry in if you haven’t done so already.
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: English hospitals that cut registered nurses saw more deaths while those hiring nurses saw more patients survive. Even when hospitals tried to fill gaps with non-nurses, deaths still went up. Major new study exposes dangerous NHS variation:
thetimes.com/article/7eed8b8…
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16 Dec 2025
I'm still reeling from having to send this email to a @wfcouncil social worker
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17 Dec 2025
Read our latest easy read and plain English newsletter from #NHSEngland Learning Disability and Autism Programme which includes information to help prevent, constipation and lung cancer. Please share widely. england.nhs.uk/learning-disa…
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9 Dec 2025
The situation is stark with the number of registered learning disability nurses declining by 43% since 2009 and the closure of university programmes.
rcni.com/learning-disability…
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29 Nov 2025
Feeling unwell this weekend?
Use the 111 online symptom checker which can direct you to the most appropriate support. ➡️111.nhs.uk/
Please remember to save 999 for life-threatening emergencies only. 🚨
#Think111
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27 Nov 2025
Explore how learning disability nurses’ specialist skills in education, communication and sensory adaptation can address oral health inequalities in people with learning disabilities. Article by Michelle Curran #Belfast @tweetandjoy.bsky.social
journals.rcni.com/learning-d…
ALT Man with learning disabilities puts hands up to another's. Man has missing teeth. Aims to illustrate article about improving oral health of people with learning disabilities and what nurses can do to help this.
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7 Nov 2025
Important all UK nurses feedback. As a mental health nurse, I feel the NMC has no vision for the field, and would be happy to let it silently die. It is difficult for me to donate to a cause which I do not believe supports the work I do #MHDeservesBetter
nmc.org.uk/about-us/consulta…
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4 Nov 2025
Excited to be presenting our research at #NursingLive tomorrow at the Birmingham NEC! A great opportunity to share our work and highlight the impact of patient and public engagement in research. 💙 #NursingResearch
#ChooseLDNursing
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5 Nov 2025
We were so pleased to see such a great turnout for our presentation #NursingLive on the CareLeD tool, which supports people with learning disabilities in accessing urgent and emergency healthcare with Delyth & @GwenMoulster
To access the tool go to;
lnkd.in/ewH3xNaE
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1 Nov 2025
Today is Learning Disability Nursing Day in the UK. Please consider joining our wonderful profession. More info here healthcareers.nhs.uk/explore… and here learningdisabilitynurse.co.u… #chooseLDNursing #RNLD #LDNDay @ukldcnn @WeLDnurses @rcni @NursingTimes
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1 Nov 2025
Happy Learning Disability Nurse Day 🎉
A day to celebrate all the wonderful RNLD and the amazing work we do!
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1 Nov 2025
👏 On Learning Disability Nursing Day, the Health Minister has thanked LD Nurses for their 'vital role ensuring people with learning disabilities receive the care and support they need'.
👇 Minister Nesbitt said LD Nurses "make a profound difference every single day".
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27 Oct 2025
Are you joining our FREE webinar with @RoseUnwin @jimgblair looking at the history of inhumanity towards people with learning disabilities and the actions we need to take? Book on at learningdisabilitytoday.co.u…
ALT Learning disabilities: From hospitals to humans FREE webinar
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Enter yourself, encourage a colleague or friend and please share. Let's celebrate the work and successes of learning disability nurses.bjnawards.co.uk/active/en/pa… bjnawards.co.uk/active/en/pa…
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5 Oct 2025
A huge thank you to all who signed and helped prepare this important letter. 💙
Together we can raise awareness, influence change & protect people with a learning disability.
Read more 👇
mencap.org.uk/press-release/…
#ChooseLDNursing
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16 Oct 2025
Excited for Nursing Live, where Gwen Moulster OBE amd I will present our team's @rcnf funded research project; UCAN. This collaborative project developed educational tools to aid individuals with learning disabilities to access urgent & emergency care.
lnkd.in/eSDW_rxf
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