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:
Related Projects
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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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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.
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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 being made throughout the process in ensuring that people with...
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Health Inequalities are laid bare in the Vaccination Priority List Lottery
“I don't want my family to not have me around,” Scott Watkin, NDTI board member and SeeAbility head of engagement, told Radio 4’s Today programme this week. Scott added: “We know from what Public Health...
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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.
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Community Support and Social Care: A new reality
Introducing Community Led Support’s Evidence & Learning Briefing PapersIn these surreal, unpredictable, and troubling times it may seem strange publishing these papers from the Community Led Support Programme, but arguably they are more important now...
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Working Together to Put the Needs of People and Families First
Mark Trewin, from the Department of Health & Social Care, welcomes NDTi’s Close to Home paper for highlighting the need for the whole mental health system to work together to improve access to supportive community...
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Research: annual health checks for people with a learning disability
People with a learning disability often have poorer physical and mental health than people who don’t have a learning disability.
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Improving the uptake of Annual Health Checks for people with learning disabilities
National Organisations work together to help more people with a learning disability have an Annual Health Check.
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The Learning Disability agenda needs new tactics, not just renewed energy.
Learning Disability Programme Lead, Madeline Cooper-Ueki, discusses our role in changing the direction of current learning disability practices in the UK.
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Dentistry for people with learning disabilities: making reasonable adjustments
The Public Health England Learning Disabilities Observatory team (known as IHaL) are preparing their next 'reasonable adjustments' report. The focus of this report will be around dentistry services for people with learning disabilities.
Related Resources
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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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Mental Health Personal Health Budgets - Evaluation Findings
NDTi’s evaluation findings are presented in three linked reports, to be read as a set or standalone reports.
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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...
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Improving the Health and Wellbeing - Commissioning guide for CCGs
This practical guide is designed to support Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), with Local Authorities and Learning Disability Partnership Boards, to commission health services in ways that achieve better health outcomes for people with learning disabilities...
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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...
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Do you care?: Preparing carers to get the best from the Care Act 2014
This is a guide for carers over 18 on how to get the information, advice and support you need.
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Supporting Carers: Sharing Best Practice in Integrated Approaches to Support
This learning will be of interest to everybody involved with local Carers’ Partnerships at a strategic level, including carers themselves.
Contact Details
Madeline Cooper
Tel: 01225 255 268
Email: Madeline.Cooper@ndti.org.uk