NHS England has released an Easyread update on TCPs.
Transforming Care Partnerships – Learning Needs Analysis Workshops
Please check this link for details of two upcoming TCP workshops being run by Skills for Health and Health Education England: 15th June 2017 12th July 2017
London Clinical Senate Forum – Summary Report
January’s Forum focused on developing high quality out of hospital care – which is central to the delivery of ambitions set out in London’s five Sustainability and Transformation Plans. The Forum aimed to support development of value based care by sharing different out of hospital care initiatives that have or…
Transforming Care Progress Report (NAO)
The National Audit Office published a report on local support for people with a learning disability on March 3rd 2017. This includes an update on progress in the Transforming Care programme and on the numbers of people with learning disabilities in employment and settled accommodation. The summary of the report…
Launch of Transforming Care Empowerment Videos
The Transforming Care empowerment steering group have worked together with the Local Government Association to develop a number of short films about what being empowered means to them. Members of the empowerment group are all experts by experience with a learning disability and/or autism, or family members. They all have…
Consultation on the Affordable Housing and Viability Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG)
The Mayor of London has published the following consultation: Open link
Consultation on five service specifications for Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHs) Tier 4
NHS England have published a consultation: Open link
Consultation on future funding for supported housing is live until 13th February 2017
The Government has published a consultation: Open link
Literature Review on Alcohol and Substance Use in people with Learning Disabilities
Haringey’s Public Health Department has shared an informative review of literature relating to alcohol and substance use in people with learning disabilities.
Stopping over-medication of people with learning disabilities
NHS England has released a helpful new document about the use of psychotropic drugs on people with learning disabilities.
NHS England – Transforming Care Newsletter – Issue 1
A PDF version of NHS England’s Transforming Care Newsletter is available to download: Transforming Care – NHS England – National Newsletter Issue 1
Serious Mental Illness guide
Healthy London Partnership has developed a guide to help support and inform commissioners to improve the physical health of individuals with Serious Mental Illness (SMI).
Accessible Information Standard event
The Accessible Information Standard https://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/patients/accessibleinfo-2/ directs and defines a specific, consistent approach to identifying, recording, flagging, sharing and meeting the information and communication support needs of patients, service users, carers and parents, where those needs relate to a disability, impairment or sensory loss. NHS England will be running 8 regional…
PBS Competence Framework
The PBS Competence Framework is now available to download from the Skills for Care PBS web page: https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/Skills/People-whose-behaviour-challenges/Positive-behaviour-support.aspx The Positive Behaviour Support Coalition (https://pbscoalition.blogspot.co.uk/) are due to post information about resources to implement the PBS Competence Framework on the blog early in 2016.
Transforming Care
The NHS has published a national plan: ‘Building the right support: A national implementation plan to develop community services and close inpatient facilities for people with a learning disability and/or autism’: https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ld-nat-imp-plan-oct15.pdf This sets out the work done by the fast track sites, the new services needed and proposed CCG…
No voice unheard, no right ignored
The government response to ‘No voice unheard, no right ignored’ Green Paper consultation was published on 10 Nov 2015.
LGA Adults Peer Training Events
The Local Government Association is holding a number of free one day training events for those interested in becoming an LGA peer to take part in Adult Social Care and Adult Safeguarding Peer Challenges. This includes the new Commissioning for Better Outcomes Peer Challenges. Peer challenges are managed and delivered…
New SAF Process
The process for the Joint Health and Social Care Learning Disability Outcome Framework (SAF) 2015 has now been published. Further details can be found in this document: SAF 2015 letter
Cavendish Group Website Launch
Launch of the Cavendish Group Website – a new voice for Mental Health in London
Education and training for learning disability workforce
Health Education England are distributing £550,000 that’s been made available to support the aims of the Transforming Care programme. The funding will support workforce development by contributing to the cost of training health and social care workers in positive behavioural support (PBS) and autism awareness. Further information can be found…