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Tackling indifference: healthcare services for people with learning disabilities: national overview report - December 2009
- Author:
- NHS Quality Improvement Scotland
- Publisher:
- NHS Quality Improvement Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 43p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (NHS QIS) wrote quality indicators for services for children and adults with learning disabilities. The quality indicators are used to check how well health services are meeting people’s needs. During 2008–2009 NHS QIS looked at services for children and adults with learning disabilities in Scotland to find out what was working well and what could be better. The review teams found lots of examples of new and helpful projects. They also found that services for people with learning disabilities and their carers are improving. But there are areas that need to be better. Recommendations are listed.
Supporting information for tackling indifference: healthcare services for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- NHS Quality Improvement Scotland
- Publisher:
- NHS Quality Improvement Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 98p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (NHS QIS) has reviewed access to general health services for people with learning disabilities and NHS QIS have travelled around Scotland to get a full understanding of the services and arrangements in place. NHS QIS have done this in partnership with people with learning disabilities and their carers, and with health and social care professionals which has added further richness to the findings. This review was wide ranging and there were many examples of innovative and effective practice. Some of these are recorded in Section 9 of this report. There is evidence that services are improving for people with learning disabilities and their carers and the report also identified areas where further improvement can be made. Recommendations are made in full in Section 6 of the report. Findings are in three key areas: awareness and implementation of the key Acts, particularly AWIA and DDA as they both support assessing individual need and improving communication across services, access to general health services, scheduled and out-of-hours (this also includes health promotion and improvement), and effective joined up working both across and within services which is critical to the delivery of safe, effective care. The ‘join’ between services should be invisible to individuals.
The limits of case management: lessons from the Wakefield Case Management Project
- Authors:
- RICHARDSON Ann, HIGGINS Ray
- Publisher:
- University of Leeds. Nuffield Institute for Health Services Studies
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 52p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
An evaluation of the development of a needs led case management project centring on the move of people with learning difficulties from hospital into the community.
Evaluating service quality
- Authors:
- EVANS Gerry, FELCE David, HOBBS Steve
- Publisher:
- Standing Conference of Voluntary Organisations for People with a Mental Handicap
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 79p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Introduces the concept of evaluation, looks at types and methods of evaluation. Part 2 offers practical guidance on how to carry out an evaluation.
Case management in practice: reflections on the Wakefield case management project
- Authors:
- RICHARDSON Ann, HIGGINS Ray
- Publisher:
- University of Leeds. Nuffield Institute for Health Services Studies
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 42p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
Aims to draw early lessons from the Wakefield Case Management Project which centred on moving people with moderate to severe learning difficulties into the community.
From care to opportunity: a review of day services for people with learning difficulties/mental handicap carried out in 1987 and 1988
- Authors:
- BIRMINGHAM COMMUNITY CARE SPECIAL ACTION PROJECT, BIRMINGHAM. Social Services Department
- Publisher:
- Birmingham Community Care Special Action Project
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Inspection of day services for people with a mental handicap: individuals, programmes and plans
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 180p., tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Reports on a series of inspections which aimed to consider systems for planning and developing day services and for identifying and assessing need; to consider characteristics of clients; to evaluate services provided in ATCs..
The North Wilts community living project: report of a PASS evaluation 1988
- Author:
- COMMUNITY AND MENTAL HANDICAP EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
- Publisher:
- Community and Mental Handicap Educational and Research Association
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 45p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Evaluates the use of the PASS instrument in a community living project for young people with learning difficulties.
Report on services for people with a mental handicap in Richmond upon Thames
- Author:
- NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TEAM FOR PEOPLE WITH A MENTAL HANDICAP
- Publisher:
- National Development Team for People with a Mental Handicap
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 42p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Annotated directory of measures of environmental quality: for use in residential services for people with a mental handicap
- Author:
- RAYNES Norma V
- Publisher:
- University of Manchester. Department of Social Policy and Social Work
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 198p., bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Summary of 62 instruments which are used to evaluate aspects of the environment and wellbeing of mentally handicapped people in residential care.