Learning Disabilities Health Team

One of our service users in the North team designed a new logo for the learning disabilities service single point of access to share on letters and have on email signatures, we had a few designs, and the services service chose their favorite.

The East Hampshire service user group had the Southern Health basic life support trainers, who train basic life support in the community, they also come, and teach service users with learning disabilities, this helped them tailor their training if at events they had members of the public with learning disabilities. The service users enjoyed the session and the trainer said what a great help they were with all their feedback

East service user group had a talk from a PHD student, who is researching improving hospital stays for learning disabilities, 3 of the group signed up to work with them on this research, and they will feedback and share once the research is completed

All the service user groups have been working hard on easy reads for sharing of secure files for accessible information such as care plans, physio and OT exercises and the consent forms, so service users understand why they are being filmed and how it is to be used to help families, carers and learning disability health team staff support the service users who use our service

The PEG had Mandy Norris come and talk about Equality Inclusion and Diversity in Southern Health, and we looked at examples of Easy read EDI policies across the country They liked Portsmouth Hospital’s easy read EDI strategy We shared this with the team

The west service users have worked with Lymington hospital to create an easy read guide to the urgent care center, when to use it, how to get there and what to expect

The Easy Read Guide was produced in partnership with the Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust’s North and West Hampshire Community Learning Disability Team. Easy Read is a way of making information easier to understand for people with learning disabilities, and other people find Easy Read Guide’s useful, particularly anyone who finds it hard to read written English

The Easy Read Guide aims to reduce anxieties when people need medical treatment. It provides clear and simple information about what to expect when you go to the Urgent Treatment Centre and includes pictures and diagrams to help people understand the information think the Easy Read Guide is going to have a really positive impact, people will be able to see exactly where they’re going. Having this information laid out in an easy read format will help people understand exactly what is going to happen when they arrive at the UTC so they don’t feel quite as nervous”

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