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Review of adult learning disability services phase II
- Author:
- REGULATION AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AUTHORITY
- Publisher:
- Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 66
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
Review of community services for adults with learning disability in Northern Ireland, which assesses the performance of the five health and social care trusts against the Department of Health’s Service Framework for Learning Disability. The review assessed the quality of services delivered to adults with a learning disability against 30 standards. The findings are presented in the areas of: safe care; effective care; compassionate care; and well led services. The review found staff were familiar with the content of the service framework, but that there was not a standardised approach to its implementation across the five health and social care trusts. Evidence of improvements identified since the 2013 review included: access to a wider range of day activities for adults with a learning disability; assessments by GPs of the health needs of adults with a learning disability; and the establishment of specialist teams within trusts to support carers in managing challenging behaviours. Areas requiring improvement included: the provision of family support services; an increase in the uptake of carer’s assessments and direct payments; the development of a single regional community based information system. The review makes 25 recommendations to support improvements in the provision of services for adults with a learning disability across Northern Ireland. (Edited publisher abstract)
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)