Care and Treatment Reviews (CTRs) are part of NHS England’s commitment to transforming services for people with learning disabilities, autism or both. CTRs are for people whose behaviour is seen as challenging and/or for people with a mental health condition. They are used by commissioners for people living in the community and in learning disability and mental health hospitals.

Since 2015, thousands of CTRs have been carried out. They are helping to reduce the number of people going into these hospitals. For example, of the 552 community CTRs recorded between April 2016 and January 2017, the outcome was a decision not to admit in almost three out of four (403) reviews.

Updates to the CTR policy

The policy for Care and Treatment Reviews changed in March 2017. These are the key changes:

• Greater focus on the quality of CTRs and the values which underpin them
  New measurable national standards by which CTRs are to be carried out
  Clearer emphasis that CTRs are for people with autism, as well as for people with learning disabilities
• A separate Policy Annex on  Care and Treatment Reviews for children and young people and a change of name to Care, Education and Treatment Reviews, (CETRs) to ensure the young person’s learning needs are also considered, working with key people from education
• Changes in the frequency of CTRs to:
  • Every six months for people in non-secure hospitals
  • Every twelve months for people in secure hospitals
  • Every three months for children and young people in hospital
• Post-admission CTRs take place within four weeks of admission other than for children where this is within two weeks of admission
• CTR panel to follow new key lines of enquiry template
• Greater emphasis on evidencing recommendations
• Clearer responsibilities and checklist for providers to gather the evidence required in advance and actively to support the process before, during and after a CTR
• Recommendations in CTR reports to name people responsible for carrying out each action by a given date, with a responsibility for commissioners to oversee a process of checking, resolving difficulties and ensuring that the person and their family is aware of progress
• Two new resources for the person having a review: one providing all the information needed in one booklet; the other booklet providing new tools such as a CTR consent form, CTR planning document, CTR feedback form and a template to support the person to record key actions to be carried out in the way they find most helpful
• New resource for experts by experience

More at: https://www.england.nhs.uk/learning-disabilities/ctr/

A Film made by the young people of The Reporter’s Academy:

Some people with a learning disability, autism or both do not know what NHS 111 is. This is a short film for people with learning disabilities, autism or both which shows:

• what NHS 111 is for
• what to expect during a 111 call
• tips on how to have a good 111 call

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMePMsS9KT8

Good news! An expression of interest for the advanced clinical practitioner role has been accepted for development and will be relevant across health and social care.

Such an apprenticeship will be designed for implementation across health and social care learning disability and autism services. Including health and social care provides a great opportunity to enhance the core and specialist elements of the course. More importantly this overarching approach may also and improve the care to the people with learning disabilities and or autism, their families and carers.

If you are interested and willing to meet and support this development please respond directly to:

healthcare.trailblazer@skillsforhealth.org.uk

Health Education England

Last year’s conference launched the Kent, Surrey & Sussex LD Community of Practice

Thursday 15 June, 9am to 5pm – The Charis Centre, Crawley, Surrey

The Kent, Surrey & Sussex Learning Disability Community of Practice is pleased to announce the date of its 2017 conference. The theme for the day will be: Building Our Community.

The intended outcomes of the conference are for participants to share and hear about good practice initiatives in the care and support for people with learning disabilities, to be consulted about how the Community of Practice might develop in the future and to network with other Community of Practice members.

The conference will include:

• Keynote speakers
• Workshops presented by Community of Practice members highlighting good practice initiatives
• Consultation around the future development of the Community of Practice
• Recruitment of ‘Community Champions’
• Market stalls
• Posters produced by Community of Practice members highlighting good practice initiatives
• The production of a film of the day

   

A chance to meet and share good practice, hear from speakers and join in workshops

Share your practice in a workshop or poster

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 or by producing a 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

There is a separate form to download and fill in if you want to run a stall in the Market Place on the day, again, return it to info@ldcop.org.uk

The closing date for applications to run workshops 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.

Criteria for selection

Conference organisers will decide which applications are successful based on the following criteria:

• The title is clear and describes the content
• The abstract is less than 300 words
• The workshop or poster focuses on the three purposes of the Community of Practice
• The content is relevant to the Community of Practice members
• The content of the workshop or poster is explicit
• Materials to be used are inclusive and easy to understand, to meet the needs of every member of the Community of Practice.

Want to know more?

If you have any queries, please contact t.evans@bild.org.uk

Tell everyone about this event!

If you know someone else who’d be interested – please forward this link to them: http://bit.ly/2nrkPWu

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