interesting letter from a learning disability nurse in The Times today...

[edam]

I know I'm not really qualified to post on SN but saw this letter in The Times. Frightening.

this letter makes a very good point edam, that I hadn't thought of before in the context of violence in the NHS. She is brave to put her name to it too

I know - imagine the backlash if her colleagues read it!

it sounds to me as if she has someone specific in mind when she talks about nurses mistreating mental health patients! I have nightmares about someone else looking after my autistic son and not knowing how to deal with him/being cruel/not giving him the cuddles and hugs he wants all day long!

ditto ancientmiddleagedmum - I find it the hardest aspect of having a dc with significant SN.

Thanks for posting it edam.

ditto ancientmiddleagedmum - I find it the hardest aspect of having a dc with significant SN.

Thanks for posting it edam.

I never leave dd alone in hospital. There was a story last week about a adult with cerebral palsy who wasn't fed during his 3 day stay cos the nusrse 'were't sure how to'
Did they not think to ask ffs? Or find someone who did?
I've seen nurses treat dd as 'not quite human' and one told me 'they don't have feelings like us'
DD has cerebral palsy, she isn't a bloody alien. And she isn't even cognitvely impaired. Although its possible the nurses thought she was and treated her less than human.

Quite a few health professionals have left me with the feeling that they view ds1 as less important than 'normal'.

Although not in A&E- they've always been great in A&E.

same here, yurt. Although in all fairness the majority are brilliant - there have just been a small handful of people who seem to think that dd2 should have really been aborted and that there was a bit of a missed opportunity .