A for Adjustment
‘A’ for Adjustments is a learning resource to support improved access and outcomes for people with a level of disability or impairment that requires services to adjust the way they ordinarily operate.
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Learning Disability Annual Health Check Toolkit
To provide a toolkit for General Practice to support the completion of good quality Learning Disability Annual Health Checks.
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
Covid Vaccinations - A Reasonable Response
NDTi Associate Crispin Hebron, and one of the authors of the soon to be published ‘A for Adjustments’, reflects on the importance of reasonable adjustments
Health Inequalities are laid bare in the Vaccination Priority List Lottery
NDTI Ambassador, Saba Salman, looks at why relying on GPs' discretion for moving people with learning disabilities into priority group 6 isn't enough to tackle health inequalities.
Statement from the Valuing People's Alliance on the Long awaited reports on deaths of people with learning disabilities from Covid 19
Two reports last week highlighted the health inequalities that people with learning disabilities face....
Annual Health Check Resources & Guides
This range of resources have been developed to support the implementation of health checks for people with learning disabilities.
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...
Making reasonable adjustments to postural care services
This guidance is to help health and social care professionals and family carers and supporters learn more about how to support the postural care needs of people with learning disabilities who are at risk of...
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...