People with learning disabilities facing long waits for care reviews

26/04/2017 / dmarsden49 / Leave a comment

In a report published today the Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee finds “just 39% of learning disability inpatients received care and treatment reviews within six months”: http://bit.ly/2pkK27R

“We are also concerned that support for people with a learning disability who live in the community is patchy; there are significant local variations but, on average, fewer than 6% of people with a learning disability are in employment and only 23% of people with a learning disability are registered as such with their GPs. There needs to be a greater focus on measuring outcomes and improvements to the quality of life from the £8 billion central and local government spend each year on this support.”

Download the PAC report here: http://bit.ly/2oISnhS

Involved in learning disability support in Kent, Surrey or Sussex? Share your good practice at our 15 June Conference – workshops, market stalls and poster spaces available

24/04/2017 / dmarsden49 / Leave a comment

Building Our Community: The Kent, Surrey & Sussex Learning Disability Community of Practice 2017 Conference, Thursday 15 June, The Charis Centre, Crawley, Surrey

The Community of Practice is looking for local people from across Kent, Surrey and Sussex to present local good practice initiatives and to share their work at the Conference in a workshop, on a market stall or by producing a poster.

Share your learning disability practice at one of the conference workshops, or by bringing a display poster. If you are interested in doing this, download this form – this is an Adobe ‘fillable’ form, fill it in, save it and return it attached to an email to info@ldcop.org.uk

Meet the many delegates interested in finding out more about your work by taking a market stall.

Download this form – this is an Adobe ‘fillable’ form, fill it in, save it and return it attached to an email to info@ldcop.org.uk

The closing date for applications to run workshops, market stalls or produce posters is 19 May 2017. Applications should focus on the three purposes of the Community of Practice which are to:

1.   Be person centred
2.   Provide the best quality care and support and
3.   Improve equality and access.

We look forward to seeing your proposals!

Books Beyond Words prize presentation

05/08/2016 / dmarsden49 / Leave a comment

As a part of the launch of the Kent Surrey Sussex Learning Disability Community of Practice in June, we offered an incentive for participants to complete the electronic evaluation forms.

This period has now closed and we are beginning to sort through your feedback, more details of this process can be found by clicking here. If you’d like to be involved in this process please email us at info@ldcop.org.uk

Through a process of random selection of all those that submitted evaluations we are pleased to advise that Lindsey Griffiths from Sussex Partnership Trust has won a six month free subscription to Books Beyond Words application.

For more information on the application, click on the picture below.

Call for Nominations : EKHUFT Barbara Mushett Award 2016 Launch

18/04/2016 / dmarsden49 / Leave a comment

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation NHS Trust (EKHUFT) are pleased to announce the third annual EKHUFT Barbara Mushett Learning Disability Practice Award for an EKHUFT staff member or team that have gone that extra mile to deliver care that is person centred.

Award Photo

Sally Smith – Chief Nurse and Jean – Barbara’s sister are enthusiastic to hear of about care for people with learning disabilities that is adjusted to the persons needs.

Previous winners have developed and used communication tools,

while last years award went to Kings D at William Harvey for the person centred culture and case study examples offered.

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This year EKHUFT will give extra consideration to anyone from outside of the organisation that wishes to acknowledge the care and support provided.

To find the nomination form and other work that EKHUFT does with people with learning disabilities, please click here.

Learning Disability Workshop Conference

12/02/2016 / dmarsden49 / Leave a comment

During 2015 the Kent and Medway Learning Disability Community of Practice in partnership with East Kent Hospitals Clinical Education and three experts by experience have been running half day workshops for mainstream healthcare professionals.

The aims of the programme has been to explore definitions of learning disabilities, the evidence base and legal frameworks, with a view to encouraging participants to explore what ‘reasonable adjustments’ might mean in their work context. More details of these can be found here.

The outcome of this project is a conference to report back on the outcomes, and for individuals and teams to share how they make adjustments for people with learning disabilities. We are pleased to share the National Clinical Director for Learning Disabilities at NHS England Dominic Slowie will be opening the event.

The target audience for this event is non-learning disability professionals.

Please see the flyer below.