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Health checks and people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- COBB Janet, GIRAUD-SAUNDERS Alison, KERR Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 13(3), October 2008, pp.38-41.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article addresses the need for health checks for people with learning disabilities as a proven route to identifying and tackling health inequalities, what health checks should look like (covering physical and mental health) and how they should be followed, and how practices and primary care trusts (PCTs) can implement health checks, involving people with learning disabilities and family carers and drawing on the expertise of community learning disability teams. Experience from Wales and England of offering health checks is described, and some key learning points are drawn out. It is recommended that appointment of a strategic health facilitator to lead to the introduction of health checks and to ensure that the results are used to improve the health and health care of the population of people with learning disabilities.
Support and services for young people with learning disabilities and mental health problems
- Authors:
- DAVIES Jill, GIRAUD-SAUNDERS Alison
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 9(3), December 2006, pp.31-39.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
By the end of 2006 child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) were required to include care pathways for children and young people with learning disabilities and mental health problems under Public Service Agreement Targets. This article describes how services have traditionally served the mental health needs of children and young people with learning disabilities, explores the policy context for change and discusses some of the projects currently underway that aim to address the Public Service Agreement targets for later this year.
Best value reviews of learning disability services for adults: a framework for applying person centred principles
- Authors:
- POXTON Richard, GREIG Rob, GIRAUD-SAUNDERS Alison
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This framework has been produced for people who are responsible for designing and leading the implementation of Best Value reviews within the learning disability service area. The lives of people with learning disabilities cannot be compartmentalised. Where they live, what they do during their days, what relationships they develop and so on are all inter-linked. It is thus not possible to consider the effectiveness of services concerned with one aspect of their lives without considering others. The framework therefore proposes that reviews should be conducted on the basis of a “whole system approach”, adopting an across the board response to identified needs. The essence of the framework is about how to apply a person centred approach to a review of services. This has the potential to result in more creative outcomes than a traditional service-based review - as such approaches often take the performance of existing service structures as their starting point. Above all, Best Value is about ensuring that fundamental questions are asked about the appropriateness of services, how they are delivered and whether they are meeting needs effectively. This framework offers the potential to do this.