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<p>National Health Service trusts have a statutory responsibility to provide sufficient
numbers of suitably qualified, competent staff to meet the needs of the people using
health services, including those with a learning disability. The professional regulators
for nurses, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), set the standards and assess
curricula for nurse education.</p><p> </p><p>The NMC’s Standards of pre-registration
nursing programmes state:</p><p> </p><p>Approved education institutions, together
with practice learning partners, must design and deliver a programme that supports
students and provides exposure across all four fields of nursing practice: adult,
mental health, learning disabilities and children’s nursing.</p><p> </p><p>The Government
response to the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review Programme Second Annual Report
published in September 2018 agrees that health and care staff should have access to
learning disability awareness training and will consult by the end of March 2019 on
options for delivering this to staff. Mandatory learning disability awareness training
should be provided to all staff, delivered in conjunction with people with learning
disabilities and their families.</p>
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