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Please note, these events are for staff employed within the Lancashire and South Cumbria healthcare system only.
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Learning Disability Awareness and AHC’s: A Whole Practice Approach
Who should attend:
Any staff member who is involved in and/or has an interest in supporting people with learning disabilities (PWLD) to have annual health checks.
Description of training:
- Training sessions will cover what a learning disability is/is not, and the characteristics seen within different levels of LD
- Overview of LD inclusion tool to identify patients, when and how to use
- Overview of LeDeR – purpose and statistics of preventable deaths in PWLD
- Importance of Annual Health Checks and common health issues in PWLD
- Mental Capacity in relation to healthcare for PWLD
- Barriers to accessing equitable healthcare for PWLD
- AHC and health action plans – what should be considered, how to develop an effective HAP
- Effective strategies to support successful AHC’s
- Service aims and objectives of the Health Facilitation Team to support GP practices
- Learning Disability Champion proposal
- Video’s from PWLD – explanation of their experiences of health checks
Please ensure you have access to a camera and microphone to join the meeting.