Thanks for all the interest in the Community event on 1st December and particularly the request for contributions.

We have had more offers than can be housed in the agenda, so we will be closing this form on 6th November, so two members of the steering group can blind review the submissions. 

If you’d still like to submit, you can do so by clicking here.

If you’d like to take one of the last few places at the event, please click here.

Finally, NHS England have kindly offered support to enable us to offer participants refreshments and lunch. 

The Community of Practice Steering group are pleased to be able to share the first face to face, in person event since the Covid lockdown. 

Kingston University have kindly agreed to host, and we are pleased to share that Baroness Sheila Hollins will be delivering a keynote on Social Prescribing and Beyond Word Book Clubs.

We also have contributions from user lead organisations, practitioners and researchers, presenting their work associated with enabling people with learning disabilities to live healthy, safe and fulfilled lives.

Details about booking your free place can be found by clicking here. 

If you would like to share your work demonstrating people with learning disabilities living healthy safe and fulfilled lives, please complete the short form available by clicking here.

Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board have recently published the local position on the training available by clicking here. 

Baywater Healthcare and Pathways Associates are working together to develop information for people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people about using Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) equipment. 

The team are looking for people that have experience of CPAP to help shape this guidance.

Below is a presentation about the project.

There is a survey to complete by clicking here from where you can also be involved in a focus group discussion. 

Dr. Genevieve Breau and colleagues at the University of Greenwich (London, UK) are currently interviewing learning disabilities nurses across the UK about their experiences recommending breast, cervical, and bowel cancer screening to their patients with learning disabilities.

If you are a learning disabilities nurse in the UK, and you are interested in learning more about the study, please contact Genevieve at G.Breau@gre.ac.uk. If you wanted to participate, you would need to provide consent and a brief demographics form, and participate in a 30-40 minute interview on Microsoft Teams at a mutually convenient time. All nurses who participate are given a £20 shopping voucher.

This study is now closed, however some of Genny’s work can be found by clicking here.