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?