The new Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR) Programme that has been commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) on behalf of NHS England.
The aim of the Programme is to make improvements in the quality of health and social care service delivery for people with learning disabilities and to help reduce premature mortality and health inequalities faced by people with learning disabilities, through national and local reviews of deaths.
The Programme has now started, and we would appreciate your views about a number of aspects of the work.
We have set up a consultation that runs from now until 10th August to find out your views about:
• The core data to be collected at the notification of a death, at an initial ‘light touch’ local review, and in a full multidisciplinary review of the death of a person with learning disabilities (LD).
• The criteria for which deaths are would require an initial ‘light touch’ local review only, and which will require full multiagency review.
• The definition of key terms used in the Programme.
• The standards against which ‘best practice’ will be measured.
The link to the online consultation is at:
https://sps.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/learning-disabilities-mortality-review-programme-stakehol-2
We would be grateful if you could please contribute to the consultation by following the link and completing as much or as little of the consultation as you are able to. Please feel free to send on to others you know who may be interested in participating. Thank you.
If you have any queries about the consultation, or would prefer a paper version of the consultation questions, please contact Pauline.Heslop@bristol.ac.uk and we will send this to you.
Anna Marriott