Publish date: 31 October 2024
Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health NHS Partnership Trust (AWP) are celebrating National Learning Disability (LD) Nurses Day today.
Sarah Jones, Director of Nursing and Quality at AWP, said: "An absolutely massive thank you to all of our Learning Disability Nurses. They are a small part of our nursing population in numbers, around 75, but my goodness are you big on what you do and deliver.
They are absolutely amazing and essential to the work we do at AWP. They challenge misconceptions about people with learning disabilities and autism. They are advocates and constantly challenge the rest of the health service and wider to make sure people with learning disabilities and autism get the right care that they need."
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Zoe Gannaway, Learning Disability Consultant Nurse at AWP said:"It's a day for us to celebrate as Learning Disability Nurses and to reflect on our achievements as individuals and as a collective.
Sasha Halford, Specialist Practitioner and LD Nurse said: "In my many roles as an LD Nurse over 25 years, I've had the privillege of getting to know, support, learn from and work with some amazing people. I still feel as passionate about being a LD Nurse as I did when I first started my training."
James, an AWP service user with a learning disability said: "The Learning Disability Nurses are very good. The help you with all your learning disability needs...I'd like to say thank you to all the Learning Disability Nurses for all their help"
AWP have approximately 75 LD Nurses across the Trust working throughout all service areas.
Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP) provides healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism in inpatient and community-based settings. They service a population of around 1.8 million across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire.
