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Promote access to healthcare for individuals with learning disabilities

Journeys: The role of the Learning Disability Liaison Nurse within the Acute Hospital.Watch the video below which shows the role of a learning disabilities liaison nurse in improving services by spreading awareness and communicating between medical practitioners, individuals and families.Watch the video and make notes. Is there anything that you can relate to your setting, or implement in your own practice? What can you learn from watching the video?

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Tutorial Video
Reading Materials

‘The needs of people with learning disabilities’ by the Royal College of Nursing
‘Health inequalities’ webpage on the Mencap website
‘Treat me well’ by Mencap
‘Assessing capacity - Consent to treatment’ on the NHS website
‘Mental Capacity Act: making decisions’ by the HM Government
‘Access to healthcare for people with learning disabilities: Mapping the issues and reviewing the evidence’ by Alison Alborz, et. al
‘Improving healthcare access for people with learning disabilities’ by Public Health England
‘Equal treatment: Closing the gap’ by the Disability Rights Commission

Presentation
Good Practice Example
Interactive Quiz
Evidence Opportunities
Extended Learning

Click the icon to access the 'Health and Care of People with Learning Disabilities, Experimental Statistics 2021 to 2022' which provides information about the key differences in healthcare between people with a learning disability and those without. It contains aggregated data on key health issues for people who are recorded by their GP as having a learning disability, and comparative data about a control group who are not recorded by their GP as having a learning disability.
Click to read ‘Code of practice: Mental Health Act 1983’ by the Department of Health and Social Care
Click to find useful resources on ‘Key government documents on the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005’ on the SCIE website. The directory helps to raise awareness about the Mental Capacity Act (MCA), including the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS). You will find useful information and tools to help understand or implement it. There is material here for people who may be subject to the Act’s provisions, and for professionals from a range of backgrounds.
Click to read ‘Consent and people with intellectual disabilities: The basics’ on the University of Hertfordshire website.
Click to read ‘Equality and equity of access to healthcare for people with intellectual disabilities’ on the university of Hertfordshire website.
Click to read ‘Improving Access to Mental Health Services for People with Learning Disabilities’ on the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities website.

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