Christos Kouimtsidis, Katrina Scior and Angela Hassiotis have published a Manual for Extended Brief Intervention for Alcohol Misuse by People with Learning Disabilities.

A training guide to help clinicians to treat people with communication and cognitive problems about changing their alcohol use behaviour.

The manual is available here.

You can read about the related trial here

New Consultation: (NICE) People’s experience in adult social care services: improving the experience of care for people using adult social care services: Draft guidance consultation

 Who is it for?

• Practitioners working in adult social care services in all settings
• Care managers and providers (statutory and non-statutory) of health and social care services.
• People using services, their families, carers, advocates and the public.
• Commissioners of health and social care services, including people who purchase their own care.

More information can be found here:

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/indevelopment/gid-scwave0772/consultation/html-content-3

The draft guidelines can be found here:

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/GID-SCWAVE0772/documents/draft-guideline

Dysphagia-Academic-Session-Save-the-date-Flyer

A fantastic video of the Kent, Surrey & Sussex Learning Disability Community of Practice annual conference which took place on 15 June 2017 at the Charis Centre, Crawley.

See if you can spot yourself!