Learning disability register access
Low uptake of the learning disability register due to unidentified barriers and the need to review and update GP guidance.
7 items
1 source
1 inquiry
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Learning disability register access has been flagged across 1 independent accountability source:
7 inquiry recs
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Inquiry Recommendations (7)
R97 — Funded access to primary care
Recommendation: The SPPG must ensure that commissioning includes provision for people with learning disabilities and autistic people cared for in any facility to have fully funded access to primary care services. These may be provided by LD nurse practitioners/LD nurse consultants. …
Response Pending
R96 — Access to mainstream mental health services
Recommendation: SPPG must ensure that people with learning disabilities and autistic people have access to mainstream (i.e. the same services that are available to those without a learning disability) mental health services, with appropriate adjustments for their disabilities.
Response Pending
R94 — Continuing community support provision
Recommendation: There will be a continuing need, which must be met, for new and ongoing community-based support for young people and adults with learning disabilities and autistic people whose families become unable to cope full time. This means there is a …
Response Pending
R90 — Regional standing committee of service users and families
Recommendation: A regional standing committee of people with learning disabilities and autistic people and their relatives should be established, to be consulted by the DoH and other bodies on services for learning disabilities and autistic people. This should be funded by …
Response Pending
R87 — PCC awareness of statutory functions
Recommendation: The PCC should take further steps to ensure that health service users, including carers and families of people with learning disabilities and autistic people, are aware of its statutory functions and the assistance it is required to provide with respect …
Response Pending
R86 — PCC information on quality of care standards
Recommendation: The PCC should support service users/families and provide information on what constitutes good quality care for people with learning disabilities and autistic people, and how to spot when care is falling short.
Response Pending
R85 — RQIA communication with patients
Recommendation: RQIA needs to spend proportionately more time talking to patients/residents, and its staff need to be trained in specific communication techniques such as Makaton and Talking Mats.
Response Pending