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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.
Is there a future for the community learning disabilities team?
- Authors:
- GREIG Rob, PECK Edward
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 3(1), January 1998, pp.35-41.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Provides a distillation of consultancy and service evaluation of Community Learning Disabilities, from across the country over the last five years. Finds that many community teams are in a state of organisational confusion and others have ceased to exist. Aims to help develop our understanding of what has been happening to these teams and identify the issues that need to be considered if these resources are to be used effectively in the future.
Theory and practice - in evaluating services
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Values into Action, 75, Winter 1994, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
Looks at different methods of evaluating services for people with learning difficulties. The PASS and PASSING systems assess services against the theory of Social Role Valorisation, however they are very detailed and do not start from the point of view of the users. Two projects - one in Humberside and one in Southwark - have developed methods for service assessment which recognise users as individuals.
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.
Ideas into action: the benefits of monitoring through a quality action group
- Authors:
- HOWELL H., JAMES J., ABBOTT K.
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap, 18(3), 1990, pp.118-120, 124.
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Mental Handicap
Describes the work of the group, which consists of the parents of young people with mental handicap and the staff who care for them, in evaluating the services provided.
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..
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
Keeping up to the 'PASS' mark: evaluation of community services
- Author:
- TYNE A.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 1(4), 1987, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Describes PASS and PASSING, two instruments for evaluating services.
Long term evaluation of services for people with a mental handicap in Cardiff: clients' views
- Authors:
- LOWE Kathryn, de PAIVA Siobhan, HUMPHREYS Simone
- Publisher:
- Mental Handicap in Wales Applied Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1986
- Pagination:
- 84p., tables, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff