EKHUFT Barbara Mushett Award Winners – Kings D Award Team from William Harvey Hospital

During May and June, East Kent Hospitals asked for people to share good examples of care delievered at one of our Hospitals.

The award – originally presented in 2014 at the Community of Practice Conference – was created to remember Barbara who was referred to in Death by Indifference with her sister Jean Anthony. We are pleased to share that this year the judging panel -consisting of Jean, Helen O’Keefe – Associate Chief Nurse, and Paula Theobald – 2014 winner – were impressed with the quality and quantity of the nominations.

In the end the Kings D staff team won the award for an excellent example of using the tools and frameworks available on the EKHUFT website and going that extra mile to reflect on improvements for the future.

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Daniel Marsden

Practice Development Nurse

EKHUFT Barbara Mushett Learning Disability Practice Award 2015

East Kent Hospitals are looking for your help with nominating their staff for the Barbara Mushett Learning Disability Practice Award. 

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In it’s second year, the award is named after a special lady who passed away 5 years ago in east Kent, and was mentioned in Mencap’s Death by Indifference report.

If you’ve had a good experience coming to an East Kent Hospital and would like to nominate a person or team, click on the above picture.

Making Reasonable Adjustments CoP Conference 2015

Kent and Medway Learning Disability Community of Practice is pleased to announce the 2015 Conference based around the theme of making reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010. This inclusive event will occur on 17th June 2015 on the Chatham Maritime campus of Canterbury Christchurch University.

Flyer jpegThe Keynote speaker will be Prof Chris Hatton who works for University of Lancaster, and affliations with IHaL and the NDTi. Chris is active on social media blogging and tweeting.

The Community of Practice is looking for local people to present local good practice around the theme of reasonable adjustments, and to share their work on the Conference page. If you are interested in this, please download the below form and return it to kandmldcop@gmail.com before 4th May 2015.

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To register for a free place, please click on http://ldcop15.eventbrite.co.uk

As always the community of practice will be looking to innovative ways of sharing the learning from the day. A twitter hashtag is already set up #ldcop15 so all those who want to join the conversation.

Community of Practice presents Doctors Workshops on People with Learning Disabilities

The Community of Practice are pleased to share this flyer for workshops for Doctors and other healthcare professionals enabling reasonable adjustments to be made for people with learning disabilities in healthcare settings.

This is a collaborative venture with East Kent Hospitals Trust and other partners including Kent Community Healthcare Trust, East Kent Mencap and Canterbury Christchurch University.

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The first workshop on 27th March is already full, however 4 more workshops and a final conference are planned.

Please email catherine.kidd@nhs.net to get more details.

Healthcare Passport Research Survey

A team of East Kent Hospitals Co-Researchers has begun work on looking at how My Healthcare Passport is used in Hospital.

The team consisting of Hospital clinicians and staff, people with learning disabilities, a nursing home manager and a parent carer would like you help with answering this short questionnaire.

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To go to the short 6 question survey click on the Passport picture above.

There will be more opportunities to get involved in this research project later this year, if you’d like to be involved, you can leave your details at the end of the questionnaire.

If you’d like to download a copy for yourself click here