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Review of compliance: Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust: Durham Rd
- Author:
- CARE QUALITY COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Care Quality Commission
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 14p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Durham Road, part of Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust, was inspected as part of a targeted inspection programme in hospitals that care for people with learning disabilities. Durham Road provides a respite service for patients with learning disabilities and a service for the assessment and treatment adults with learning disabilities. The inspection was to assess how well they experience effective, safe and appropriate care treatment and support that meets their needs and protects their rights; and whether they are protected from abuse. Durham Road was found to meet all the essential standards of quality and safety reviewed.
A baseline assessment and review of community services for adults with a learning disability
- Author:
- REGULATION AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AUTHORITY
- Publisher:
- Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 65
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
The Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority is the independent body responsible for monitoring and inspecting the quality and availability of health and social care services in Northern Ireland. This baseline assessment of teams for adults with a learning disability looked at the services provided across the five health and social care (HSC) trusts in Northern Ireland, as at April 2011. The report looks at the role and composition of community learning disability teams and the profile of investment in staff across the Trusts; the management of transitions and interface between services; and unmet need. Contrary to movement towards a more integrated or personalised pattern of service delivery, it remarks that manyl professionals continue to provide "traditional" forms of service to this group. The overall model of community services for adults was delivered mostly by teams of social workers and specialist community learning disability nurses, assisted by allied health professionals and clinical psychology staff. Provision of specialist therapeutic services for people with a learning disability is variable; and little evidence was found of psychiatrists working as full members of community based teams: they worked mostly in the learning disability hospitals. The report comments on a reliance on informal networking by teams, but commends the work to develop user friendly information for service users and their carers. However, carers need more information on new forms of services such as direct payments and personalisation. Exclusion of people with a learning disability from mental health services for adults or older people and from the newly established autism services was particularly evident. In the light of the Bamford Review of Learning Disability and the proposed Mental Capacity (Health, Welfare and Finance) Bill, changes in demand and the need for training to effectively deliver the requirements of the legislation. (Original abstract)