A Safety Plan can help people navigate distress more safely No one is immune from suicidal thoughts - key is early intervention: Plan of strategies, hope, make your situation safer (reduce access to means) and support incl crisis 24/7 See StayingSafe.net #WSPD #WSPD24

🗞️ NEW PAPER 🗞️ Experiences of #ActuallyAutistic adults previously diagnosed with BPD/EUPD "misdiagnosis carried stigma, introduced diagnostic overshadowing, & led to harmful experiences... they felt powerless to challenge it" Read free: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… BSMS

The Learning Disability & Autism Advisory group is looking for new members who are experts by experience. We want people with different experiences & backgrounds. Join us to help make the NHS work better for people with a learning disability and autism forms.office.com/e/Zp65PsRBE2

New preprint! ▶️ osf.io/kn2wr/ “Read my lips, not my body”: a thematic analysis of autistic people’s social communication preferences, experiences, and expectations🧵

Registered Nurses in Learning Disabilities - wherever and whatever you are doing - we need your views!

Excellent day with the North West Operational Delivery Network thinking about the issues faced by our neurodivergent children, young people and adults and how we can work together as a system to improve outcomes CANDDID Mahesh Odiyoor Maddy Lowry

Great work going on here by NHS teams across the wider North West. This ODN conference brings together senior NHS leaders from various different Trusts, all mindful that autism is "the new kid on the block", and keen to address gaps in services and support.

Great to see senior NHS leaders across the North West of England (including parts of Cumbria) looking at gaps in services for autistic people (adults and children). This is how change happens. CANDDID Mahesh Odiyoor Maddy Lowry

Advances in Autism Verity Chester Sarah Jackson

RNLDs wherever you are, WE NEED YOUR VIEWS! 281 responses so far! 16500 to go! Please encourage RNLDs in neurodiverse support settings Sarah Jackson Kimberley Ashwin Shaun Williams #FairPayForNursing forms.office.com/pages/response…

To all my RNLD friends and colleagues please take some time to give your feedback on this important topic! lucy keniford Christine Hutchinson RNLD QN Carly Jackson Jacquie Shenton Tracey Hartley-Smith RNLD QN 💙🇺🇦 Amy Shaw RNLD Kieran Uttley Esther Smith QN Helen Laverty MBE hellomynameis Paul 💙RN MA OStJ OliversLifeGoals Gemma Hill

Come and celebrate with us on November 1st as it’s National Learning Disability Nurses Day! #ChooseLDNursing

Steve Hardy🏳️‍🌈 Amy Shaw RNLD UKLDCNN Gwen Moulster 💙 Sue Bridges 💙 #chooseLDNursing Jessica Lister 💙 Rachel Mills Kerry Anderson QN Scott Taylor Michelle Curran Barbs seamus coyle clionagh McElhinney GarydocLDnurse Sarah Jackson Kimberley Ashwin

John Harris Dr Sheila Fish Ian Birrell Sarah Jackson Sammy porter Andrea Flood 💚 Maxine Rigby Kimberley Ashwin

Neil Allen Tracey Hartley-Smith RNLD QN 💙🇺🇦 Sarah Jackson

Great that the RCN Foundation continues to promote Learning Disability Nursing! This will be a great evening if you can make it!

Students - If you are undertaking learning disability nursing studies we want to hear from you! We are collecting views ahead of our Learning Disability Nursing Workforce Summit. Survey closes at 5pm tomorrow (18th October). Share your thoughts here forms.office.com/e/YP2pVFJZXS