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Enhancing Patient Support for Learning Disabilities at LTHT

Learn about LTHT's latest actions to support patients with learning disabilities, including new training programs, electronic flagging systems, safeguarding protocols, and plans for easy-read materials. Stay informed and get involved now!

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Enhancing Patient Support for Learning Disabilities at LTHT

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  1. Update on LTHT Actions to Support Patients with Learning Disabilities Chris Hewitt Senior Nurse

  2. Working with other professionals • Learning Disabilities Collaborative Steering Group • Partnership Board • Access to Acute (A2A) Meetings • Health Task Group

  3. Working with patients and carers • LTHT Patient Groups: • Learning Disability • Deaf and Hard of Hearing • Blind and Partially Sighted • LTHT Carers Group

  4. 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

  5. Identifying patients with additional needs • The Trust Electronic Patient Administration System (PAS) has a new flag

  6. 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 recordingcan ONLY be carried out with consent

  7. 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)

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. Thank you for listeningAny questions?

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