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Training
Links to various training and online learning about epilepsy to support health and care professionals working with people with a learning disability or autistic people.
Training
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Diagnosis & Management of Epilepsy in Adults
Organisation: Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP)
Type: Course
Date published: Last reviewed April 2022
Description: Online Course for GPs and practices
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OPEN UK: Organisation of Paediatric Epilepsy Networks in the UK
Organisation: NHS Trusts and Health Boards
Type: Professional network/ working group
Date published: N/A
Description: OPEN UK is a clinical network connecting NHS Health Boards and Trusts that provide care for children with epilepsies with regional epilepsy networks and a UK Working Group
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Royal College of Nursing: Learning Disability Nursing Library
Organisation: Royal College of Nursing
Type: Resource Library and sessions
Date published: April 2023
Description: Learning disability nurses' links and resources on for the care and welfare of people with a learning disabilty or autism
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Stopping over medication of people with a learning disability, autism or both (STOMP)
Organisation: NHS England
Type: Professional resources
Date published: April 2023
Description: Information and resources including an online mediucal pathway, and easy materials in different languages on STOMP and STAMP
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Stopping the over medication of people with learning disabilities and autism
Organisation: Dimensions UK
Type: Good Practice
Date published: May 2017
Description: Describes how Dimensions has worked with STOMP to reduce medication in people that they support.
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Training nurses in a competency framework to support adults with epilepsy and intellectual disability: the EpAID cluster RCT
Organisation: NHS England
Type: Research study
Date published: August 2019
Description: An economic analysis to determine if learning disability nurses, using a competency framework intervention for the management of epilepsy in adults with learning disabilities, can cost-effectively improve clinical and quality-of-life outcomes when compared with treatment as usual