update on ltht actions to support patients with learning disabilities chris hewitt senior nurse
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Update on LTHT Actions to Support Patients with
Learning Disabilities
Chris HewittSenior Nurse
Working with other professionals• Learning Disabilities Collaborative Steering
Group
• Partnership Board
• Access to Acute (A2A) Meetings
• Health Task Group
Working with patients and carers• LTHT Patient Groups:
~ Learning Disability ~ Deaf and Hard of Hearing~ Blind and Partially Sighted
• LTHT Carers Group
Staff learning
• LTHT will deliver training to all grades of staff within the organisation
• LTHT plan to roll out a Learning Disability awareness eLearning package
Identifying patients with additional needs
• The Trust Electronic Patient Administration System (PAS) has a new flag
Ways of recording additional needs on PAS
● Emergency admission identified as having a learning disability the A&E department
● Patients admitted to ward/department who are identified as having a learning disability that is not previously recorded
● In the near future patients or their carers will be able to phone to request for the flag to be added to their record
NB – the above ways of recording can ONLY be carried out with consent
Safeguarding• All LTHT staff should have level 1 (alerter)
safeguarding training
• LTHT has accessible safeguarding policies for adults and children which contain clear guidance for staff
• Lead Nurse Safeguarding Adults
• Child Protection Team (doctors and nurses)
Providing information to patients and carers• New PALS leaflet
• New pain assessment tool in progress
• Plans to change the patient surveys &
other patient information leaflets to make
them easy read
Reasonable Adjustments• Provide any health related information in
an easy read format
• Offer longer appointments so that people have the time to communicate their needs and understand treatments.
• Offer the choice of first or last outpatient appointments
Thank you for listening
Any questions?
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