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Ben Thomas, Professional Officer for Mental Health and Learning Disability Nursing

Protecting Mental Health - a blog by Ben Thomas

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Today, as part of our week of action, Protecting Health: Nursing and Midwifery Successes and Challenges, we have the opportunity to consider mental health. In this blog Dr Ben Thomas, Professional Officer for Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Dementia at …

Ben Thomas on Improving safety and delivering a better healthcare experience for people with learning disabilities

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As the Professional Officer for Mental Health and Learning Disabilities at the Department of Health, I want to make sure that people with learning disabilities receive safe, appropriate and high quality care.  Unfortunately, the Healthcare for All, report of the …

Ben Thomas reports on progress - 'Strengthening the Commitment: implementing the recommendations from the UK Modernising Learning Disabilities Nursing Review

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To ensure that the health and social care systems are prepared for the changing health needs of people with learning disabilities the four home countries’ government lead nurses initiated a review into learning disabilities nursing. ‘Strengthening the commitment: the report …