East Kent Hospitals are looking for your help with nominating their staff for the Barbara Mushett Learning Disability Practice Award.
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.
4th May 2015 deadline is nearly here – please do not hesitate to submit an application for presentation.
Kent and Medway Learning Disability Community of Practice 2015 Conference is based around the theme of making reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010 is just around the corner. This inclusive event will occur on 17th June 2015 on the Chatham Maritime campus of Canterbury Christchurch University.
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.
A comprehensive report by the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Intellectual Disabilities workforce has recently been published on behalf of NHS Health Education Kent Surrey and Sussex.
The reason for this report is:
There are an estimated 1017 qualified nurses working in the Intellectual Disability services in this demographic area. However, data reviewed suggests that 64% of these nurses are working in the private and independent services. It is estimated that over the next decade upwards of 42% of these nurses could retire. Therefore, the education commissions for intellectual disability nurses are not meeting the supply needs of employers and it is quite difficult to recruit to.
If you would like to read further please do access the attached documents which are also downloaded in an easy read format.
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PCPLD Network, Kent Branch promote excellence and networking in end of life care for people with learning disabilities.
They are holding their next meeting at 2pm on 14th May 2015, Pilgrims Hospice, Margate, Kent CT9 4AD
Please feel free to attend. meeting 13 poster – COP
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.
The 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.
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.