Improving Health & Lives Learning Disabilities Observatory

Improving Health & Lives Two new DH funded initiatives Learning Disabilities Observatory Confidential Inquiry Three-year projects (years two & three dependant on review & resources being available)

We Are North East Public Health Observatory Centre for Disability Research National Development Team for Inclusion

Observatory Aims Improve the health of (and reduce health inequalities experienced by) people with learning disabilities in England Helping people who commission services make better use of information

Making Information More Easily Available Website Special reports (plus summaries, media engagement)

Making Information More Easily Available Special reports (plus summaries, media engagement)  Defining ‘learning disabilities’  Uptake of annual health checks  Overview of health inequalities  Effectiveness of health checks  Estimating local need  Use of learning disabilities registers  Annual overview

Working Toward Having Better Information Measuring disability in large-scale health & social surveys Including markers for disability in administrative data sets  Hospital Episode Statistics  Cancer registries  Practice-based registers

Helping People Make Better Use of Information Working with partners in six pilot sites  Calderdale  Cornwall  Kent  Nottinghamshire  Westminster

People with Challenging Behaviours ‘Priority group’ Not identified in most existing information systems (?registers?) Specific projects?