Message from the Learning Disability Health Facilitation Team

Date: 5th Dec 2023 @ 9:06am

Good Morning

I'm getting in contact from the Learning Disability Health Facilitation Team to share some good news with you!

Our website is now fully up and running and can be accessed using this link  Health Facilitation Team :: Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (lscft.nhs.uk).  Our website has a wealth of information and links to easy read documents and national guidance to support people with a learning disability to achieve the best possible health and wellbeing and gain access to equitable healthcare.

The website is split into 3 targeted sections for people with a learning disability, families and carers and professionals.  Each section has relevant downloadable information on how best to meet the health needs of people with a learning disability including information on:

Annual Health Checks
Creating a Health Action Plan
Making reasonable adjustments in practice
Mental Capacity Act and Best Interest guidance
Easy Read information on healthcare
Information about learning disability registers and clinical coding
National reports on health inequalities
Easy Eye Care including a list of optician’s practices across Lancashire and South Cumbria who facilitate specialised eye clinics for people with a learning disability
And so much more!!
 

We are also pleased to be able to share the attached PDF document which is a detailed annual health check toolkit developed by NHS England in collaboration with partner organisations across the North West.  The toolkit contains information and links to a number of useful guidance documents which can be accessed directly from the linked webpage.

Please take time to take a look at our website and feel free to contact us if you have any questions or suggestions which you think we could include.

Many thanks

Learning Disability Health Facilitation Team

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