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Welcome to NHS Evidence - learning disabilities

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The aim of the specialist collection

  • The aim of NHS Evidence - Learning Disabilities is to provide quick access to key documents and evidence for health professionals. including links to key journals. 
  • The Learning Disabilities Specialist Collection has an RSS feed featuring the latest additions to the collection, a monthly evidence bulletin and a Google Group for users to network with colleagues.
  • The Learning Disabilities Specialist collection information leaflet.
  • If you have any questions or comments please contact us.

LATEST ADDITIONS - This collection was updated on 3 February 2010

New guides to help people with learning disabilities move into self employment
A suite of online products to encourage people to consider self-employment and to help them to set up their own business.
Equal access A practical guide for the NHS
Guide to support the NHS to include people with learning disabilities in their equality schemes
Are people getting the quality of life outcomes they want in Ireland
Extended summary of the results of a survey of Quality of Life using Personal Outcome Measures.
Aggressive behaviours in people with learning disabilities why the current level of use of anti-psychotics
Extended summary of a review of the literature on the use of anti-psychotic medication for aggressive behaviours which sets out to identify whether the high use of anti-psychotics can be justified by an association between aggressive behaviours and psychotic disorders.
What were long term outcomes for individuals discharged from a specialised dual diagnosis inpatient unit in Canada
Extended summary of study looking at treatment outcomes of specialised inpatient units for people with learning disabilities and additional mental health problems who have been admitted to and discharged from a specialist unit in Canada.

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What you can expect to find in this site

Provided by NICE, NHS Evidence is a new service which will develop, enhance and expand the services that were previously provided by the National Library for Health (NLH). The NLH and its specialist libraries became part of NHS Evidence on 1 April 2009. NHS Evidence went live on April 30th 2009 at www.evidence.nhs.uk.

As part of ongoing developments, the specialist libraries are changing their names and will, as a group, be called specialist collections. This individual collection is now  ’NHS Evidence – learning disabilities’, and you will continue to be able to access all the content and features. The existing URL for the collection will remain for now, but is likely to change later in the year as the specialist collections become fully integrated with the NHS Evidence portal.   

For more information about NHS Evidence, please follow this link to the NICE website: http://www.nice.org.uk/aboutnice/nhsevidence/AboutNHSEvidence.jsp