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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.
Public special services provided to people with intellectual disabilities in Sweden: a life-span perspective
- Author:
- UMB-CARLSSON Oie
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 5(4), December 2008, pp.237-244.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This study describes public special services, support, and health care provided to an administratively defined county sample of people with intellectual disabilities from early childhood to adult age. Comparisons were made on the variables year of birth, sex, and assessed level of intellectual disabilities in 1974. Information was obtained from case files and included the period from year of birth of the participants (between 1959 and 1974) to 2005. All participants were provided public special services, support, and health care either periodically or throughout the study period. Changes in legislation were reflected in the type of services, support, and health care provided to the target group. Type and amount of special services and support were related to year of birth. Only a few differences were related to sex and level of intellectual disabilities. These results indicate that public special services, support, and health care provided to people with intellectual disabilities reflect disability policy, legislation, and professional attitudes over different periods. It is suggested that measures were tailored to meet general needs considered to be shared by all people with intellectual disabilities rather than individual choices and wishes. The interaction among professionals emerged only to a limited extent. However, deficient information in the case files does not imply absence of contact between professional groups, but, if continuity in services, support, and health care is to be attained, significant improvement in documentation is required.
Would you complain?
- Authors:
- ONE TO ONE PLUS, TOWER HAMLETS. Community Learning Disability Service
- Publisher:
- Inspired Services
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- (28 mins.), DVD, booklet
- Place of publication:
- Newmarket
Picture yourself in a café; you find a worm in your burger. Would you complain? Of course you would! Picture yourself in your own home; your support worker is not listening to you or your needs. Would you complain? Everyone has the right to complain, but it’s not always easy and few people with learning disabilities do. Many people do not know that complaining can have a positive outcome. This is what a group of people with learning difficulties from Tower Hamlets set out to show in their new video complaints pack. This pack includes a DVD and supporters notes which is designed for groups and it helps people, over several sessions, learn about complaints and explore what they feel about making them. The group launched the DVD at Learning Disability Today on 31st October 2007. The group is going to use the proceeds from sales to carry on their work and make sure that more people know about.
You and eye: a film about eye care for people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- MELLING David, (Director)
- Publisher:
- SeeABILITY
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- DVD
- Place of publication:
- Epsom
"You and I" is an educational film currently being created by SeeAbility's eye 2 eye project in Bristol. The film contains three short stories - having an eye test and getting glasses, having a cataract operation, and the importance of regular eye health checks and sight tests. The film will be distributed across the UK free of change to educate people with a learning disability, their families and carers and health and social care staff on the importance of eye care and vision for people with learning disabilities. The film is made in partnership with The Misfits, a local Bristol theatre group for people with a learning disability. The Misfits have been rehearsing for this film for around 6 months and filming, which started on the 23rd March 2007, has taken place in and around Bristol - including the Bristol Eye Hospital.
Adults with learning disabilities implementation of ‘The same as you?’ Scotland 2007
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Government National Statistics
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Government National Statistics
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The purpose of this statistics release is to present the fifth set of national figures for services provided by local authorities in Scotland for adults with learning disabilities. All figures for 2007 relate to the week ending 16 September 2007 and are provisional.
Inspection of services for people with learning disabilities: Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea: July 2007
- Authors:
- DE METZ Alison, et al
- Publisher:
- Commission for Social Care Inspection. London
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 61p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Inspection of services for people with learning disabilities: Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea: easy-read version: July 2007
- Authors:
- DE METZ Alison, et al
- Publisher:
- Commission for Social Care Inspection. London
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 33p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Inspection of services for people with learning disabilities: Cumbria County Council: July 2007
- Authors:
- MIDDLETON Laura, et al
- Publisher:
- Commission for Social Care Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 51p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Inspection of services for people with learning disabilities: London Borough of Sutton: April 2007
- Authors:
- DE METZ Alison, et al
- Publisher:
- Commission for Social Care Inspection. London
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 47p.
- Place of publication:
- London