Sharing best practice to support health professionals
Making sure people who work in NHS trusts have the training they need to support people with learning disabilities
Health Equalities
Having as good a health as possible is an important starting point for people living good lives in their communities. NDTi has a number of projects around this issue.
Health services need to be personalised and support people’s community inclusion as much as any other element of public services. Our main work in relation to people’s health includes:
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Improving the uptake of Annual Health Checks for people with learning disabilities
"People with learning disabilities have poorer health than their non-disabled peers, yet differences inhealth status are, to an extent, avoidable. The health inequalities faced by people with learning disabilities in the UK start early in...
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Improving Health and Lives - IHaL
IHaL - The Learning Disabilities Public Health Observatory - was a collaboration between NDTi, Public Health England and the Centre of Disability Research at Lancaster University to:
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The Health Equality Framework - practical implementation workshops
The Health Equality Framework (HEF) is) a freely available outcomes-based tool to help commissioners, providers, people with learning disabilities and their families understand the impact and effectiveness of health and social care services.
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Better Now: A collaborative call to action at NCASC 2024
We're delighted to be collaborating with Shared Lives Plus and Community Catalysts on a campaign to highlight a range of proven approaches that are reshaping conversations about social care. Better Now is a call-to-action that...
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The breaking of a new dawn for social care
Better is possible now is a shared call to action from NDTi, Community Catalysts and Shared Lives Plus spotlighting existing models that are already working.
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Blog: Strengths based change – 10 things for success
Jenny Pitts, programme lead for the Community Led Support programme, reflects on her own learning from the last decade and what it really takes for local areas to make a success of embedding a strengths...
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Blog: Breaking through at 9 3/4 years
Amanda Nally, Community Led Support (CLS) development lead, writes about the recent annual gathering in Manchester.
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Blog: Rethinking, rebalancing and redesigning social care
Paul Marshall, CEO of NDTi, writes about his reflections on the Archbishops’ Commission and House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee reports.
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Guest Blog: The Value of Older People
David Vickers is a member of the Older People’s Sounding Board. It’s a group we facilitate on behalf of NHS England where members use their skills and experience to provide feedback on policy proposals. The...
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Talking Inclusion: Ep.6 - A for Adjustment Resource
Not just a nice to have - its a legal requirement. Sue and Crispin discuss how the new Reasonable Adjustment resources were developed, who should use them, where you can download them and why they...
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Talking Inclusion Ep.5: Nick's Story
Nick shares his journey towards reasonable adjustments in healthcare for his son Alex.
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Blog: Taking Responsibility
It’s time to take responsibility. Jane Friswell and Bill Love reflect on placements, secure settings and failing people.
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Podcast: A Carer's Perspective on the Mental Health White Paper
A Mother, Carer and "Expert by Experience" of the Care and Treatment Review process offers her views on the recent Mental Health White Paper and discusses what the changes could mean.
Related Resources
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A review of advocacy
This report covers in depth research about advocacy for people with a learning disability and autistic people who are inpatients in mental health, learning disability or autism specialist hospitals.
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Top Tips to help with Digital Inclusion
Digital learning through Covid – opportunities to redress inequalities through including people with learning disabilities in digital redesign plans NDTi is part of the Valuing People Alliance, which, in turn, is a member of the...
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Small steps on a long journey to health equality – NHS 111 and LeDeR
NHS 111 First When the NHS 111 first campaign launched, we at the Valuing People Alliance (NDTi, LDE and BILD) decided we wanted to know what impact this might have on people with learning disabilities...
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Image Resources: "It's Not Rocket Science"
The following images have been developed by Artist Tomos Percy to support the Report : "It's Not Rocket Science" Considering Sensory Needs of Children and Young People in CAHMs Hospitals. Quotes are taken from the...
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A for Adjustment
Adjusted care resources to support health and care workers
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Learning Disability Annual Health Check Toolkit
The purpose of this toolkit To provide a toolkit for General Practice to support the completion of good quality Learning Disability Annual Health Checks. This London guide is designed to complement and not replace national...
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Annual Health Check Resources & Guides
This range of resources have been developed to support the implementation of health checks for people with learning disabilities.
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Close to Home: review and recommendations for reducing out of area placements
This paper, written by NDTi Associate Edana Minghella, provides an overview of the policy, issues and costs (to the person themselves as well as the public purse) associated with out of area placements for adults...
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Annual Health Checks Guidance
The NDTi has written best practice guides for commissioners and providers of services on the implications of the information gathered by Public Health England and the Centre for Disability Research. We have written a series...
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Improving the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities guidance
People with learning disabilities have poorer health than the general population, much of which is avoidable. This means that people with learning disabilities experience health inequalities, often starting early in life. The impact is serious...