1. Improving Health & Lives Learning Disabilities Observatory www.ihal.org.uk

2. Improving Health & Lives Two DH funded three year projects - Learning Disabilities Observatory Confidential Inquiry

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

4. Observatory Aims Improve the health of (and reduce health inequalities experienced by) people with learning disabilities in England Help people who commission services (and others) make better use of information By: Making information more easily available Getting better quality information Making information ‘user friendly’

5. Recent reports Why people with learning disabilities die + easy read Health checks + guidance + easy read Reasonable adjustments + guidance + easy read + data base Data gaps report

6. Events 2011/12 Three health check events Two reasonable adjustments events Two events for social care staff At least one workshop on supporting people with learning disabilities and family carers to use IHaL information

7. Local Partners Nottinghamshire – work with acute liaison nurses and primary care facilitators Sheffield – young people with complex needs Westminster – reasonable adjustments Kent – outcomes for the community team Cornwall – cancer screening.

8. The ‘new commissioners’ Work with the Department of Health and local commissioning groups about what information they need to commission services for people with learning disabilities.

9. South West Acute Hospital Review 16 th March event website Business case for acute liaison nurses

10. The Draft Health Check Audit Tool Aim: A tool to support local quality improvement Builds on the work of others ‘Keep it simple’ There will be an easy read version It is a draft!

11. Seven Questions 1.How well are we doing at identifying patients with learning disabilities? 2.How well are we doing at arranging for people to attend for a health check? 3.How well are we doing at making people feel comfortable when they arrive? 4.How well are we doing at performing the health check? 5.How well are we doing at arranging for and supporting the uptake of follow-up actions? 6.How well are we doing at collating information about the health needs of people with learning disabilities to inform the commissioning process? 7.How well are we doing at improving our practices?

12. Any questions