Policy paper

Progress on improving nursing for people with learning disabilities

How learning disability nursing is improving to give high quality, compassionate care for people with learning disabilities.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 17 April 2014

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Applies to England

Documents

Strengthening the commitment: 1 year on: progress report on the UK Modernising Learning Disabilities Nursing Review

PDF, 620 KB, 32 pages

Details

This report sets out the progress made in England during the past year against the 17 recommendations set out in ‘Strengthening the Commitment: The report of the UK Modernising Learning Disability Nursing Review (2012)’. It shows how the recommendations have been turned into good practice to achieve better health and wellbeing for people with learning disabilities.

It fulfils the commitment we made in ‘Transforming Care: A national response to Winterbourne View Hospital’.

Published 17 April 2014