Category: Quality of Life

Learning Disabilities Bulletin

from Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

All credit goes to our coworkers over at Mersey Care for making this bulletin.

In this edition:

  • Integrated Supports: Perspectives from Adults with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities
  • The effect of first aid training on first aid knowledge levels among parents of children with special needs
  • People with severe intellectual disability are dying 24 years younger than the general population
  • Insulin self-management leading to harm in people with learning disabilities
  • Missing from the learning disability register, missing from care
  • CAPBS publish new paper: The need to clearly distinguish and separate Physical Intervention training from Positive Behaviour Support training in the UK
  • Plus much more
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Learning Disabilities Bulletin

from Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

credit to our coworkers over at Mersey Care

In this edition:

  • Assessment of Communication in People with Severe to Profound Intellectual Disabilities: Best Practice Tools and Options
  • Cancer screening in people with intellectual disability: a scoping review of participation, barriers, facilitators, and improvement strategies within the EUCanScreen initiative
  • Supporting vaccination for SEND children and young people
  • DNA-CPR orders more likely for adults with profound learning disabilities
  • Whitefield School: Safeguarding Practice Review Published
  • Major expansion of community mental health support across England
  • Plus much more
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Learning Disabilities

By Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Credit to our coworkers at Mersey Care

In this edition:

  • Supporting autistic people and people with a learning disability to live well in their communities
  • Timms Review of Personal Independence Payment: interim report
  • “A way out”: CQC-led reviews support autistic people and people with a learning disability out of long-term segregation
  • NHS England community living guidance for people with learning disabilities
  • Report Launch – Building a Bridge: How to end the cliff edge of transition between children’s and adult services for young people with learning disabilities in England
  • Care England launches new choking prevention guide for people with learning disabilities
  • Plus much more
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Latest Learning Disabilities Bulletin

Dear all,

Welcome to the new Learning Disabilities Bulletin!

To ensure that you continue to receive the appropriate bulletin(s) please complete this very brief form LD + ND Mailing lists – Fill in this form

The latest Learning Disabilities Bulletin is ready for you to view at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/learning-disability/2026/06/3-june-2026-3/


In this edition:

  • Virtual Consultations for People With Intellectual Disabilities in General Practice and Community Care: Mixed Methods Qualitative Study
  • Bowel cancer care in individuals with an intellectual disability: a population-based cohort study of symptoms, diagnostic pathways, treatment and survival
  • Maternal Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Infant Outcomes
  • Supporting People Leaving Long-Stay Hospitals and The Role of Peer Advocacy
  • Children with SEND face safety risks in schools, new survey finds
  • People with learning disabilities help to develop Easy Read resources
  • Plus much more

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New Learning Disabilities Bulletin


Welcome to the new Learning Disabilities Bulletin!

To ensure that you continue to receive the appropriate bulletin(s) please complete this very brief form LD + ND Mailing lists – Fill in this form

The latest Learning Disabilities Bulletin is ready for you to view at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/learning-disability/2026/07/1-july-2026-2/


In this edition:

  • Psychopathology from childhood to adolescence in children with and without Mild Intellectual Disability (MID): a comparison across three MID operationalizations
  • Muckamore Abbey Hospital Inquiry Report Published
  • Falling nurse numbers leave people with learning disabilities behind
  • Lived Experience of Pica: a parent and sister’s perspective
  • New three-year learning disabilities and autism plan to “transform” support
  • What four things are carers telling us about health and social care?
  • Plus much more

Latest Learning Disabilities Bulletin

Dear all,

Welcome to the new Learning Disabilities Bulletin!

To ensure that you continue to receive the appropriate bulletin(s) please complete this very brief form LD + ND Mailing lists – Fill in this form

The latest Learning Disabilities Bulletin is ready for you to view at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/learning-disability/2026/05/19-may-2026-3/


In this edition:

  • Frequency of mixed neuropathologies in individuals with down syndrome with and without Alzheimer’s dementia
  • Immediate and Underlying Causes of Death and Survival Rates in Aging Adults With Down Syndrome
  • Acts of Hope for Good Lives
  • Are Migraines Being Missed in People with Learning Disabilities?
  • CBF Announces Making it Matter Project
  • Attachment and caregiving by parents with learning disabilities: lessons from research
  • Plus much more

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Learning Disabilities Bulletin

Dear all,

Dear all,   Welcome to the new Learning Disabilities Bulletin!   To ensure that you continue to receive the appropriate bulletin(s) please complete this very brief form LD + ND Mailing lists – Fill in this form   The latest Learning Disabilities Bulletin is ready for you to view at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/learning-disability/2026/03/12-march-2026-2/  
In this edition:   Hospitalisations and deaths due to ambulatory care sensitive conditions among adults with and without intellectual disabilities in Scotland: a cohort study Non-Substance Addictive Behaviors Among People with Intellectual Disability: A Systematic Review Low-Dose Lithium for Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial Webinar recording: Introducing the Working Together Checker Connected Care – Highlights and insights from the 2026 Growing Older with Learning Disabilities Conference Good Lives depend on good support: new report on pay in adult social care Plus much more
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Spirituality and Mental Health Bulletin  

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Spirituality and Mental Health Bulletin March 2026

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Learning Disabilities Bulletin

Dear all,

Welcome to the new Learning Disabilities Bulletin!

To ensure that you continue to receive the appropriate bulletin(s) please complete this very brief form LD + ND Mailing lists – Fill in this form

The latest Learning Disabilities Bulletin is ready for you to view at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/learning-disability/2026/03/12-march-2026-2/


In this edition:

  • Hospitalisations and deaths due to ambulatory care sensitive conditions among adults with and without intellectual disabilities in Scotland: a cohort study
  • Non-Substance Addictive Behaviors Among People with Intellectual Disability: A Systematic Review
  • Low-Dose Lithium for Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial
  • Webinar recording: Introducing the Working Together Checker
  • Connected Care – Highlights and insights from the 2026 Growing Older with Learning Disabilities Conference
  • Good Lives depend on good support: new report on pay in adult social care
  • Plus much more

Please let us know if there are other people who you think might benefit from receiving this bulletin.