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South East A2A

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Access to Acute Care; Supporting People with a Learning Disability on Admission To Hospital

Welcome to the "A2A" (Access to Acute) interest group homepage.

This homepage primarily contains useful information for you to download, such as reports and meeting minutes. The following types of information are available (just click on the links):

New - Regional A2A pages (see links to left below main navigation)

Most resources on this page are available as PDF files which can be viewed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader you can download it for free from http://www.adobe.com

A2A Meeting Minutes and Information

Next Meetings:

 

June 07, Leicester

For more information about any of these meetings please contact Rick Robson Chair, Tel: 01743 261 181, Email: Rick.Robson@shropshirepct.nhs.uk

Medway Hospital Audit

full version:  click to download  (pdf file)

accessible version: click to download (word)

 

Conference report information:

A New Research Agenda:

Improving General Hospital Care for People with Learning Disabilities  Click to download

Upcoming meetings

LD  Interest group meetings - download

December (to be arranged)

Minutes of previous meetings

Conference Presentations and report

 

NHFN presentations

 

Creating a-cute service

Kevin Elliot

Stephan and Mark

Understanding the experience of people with learning disabilities

 

January 05 Conference Report click to download

 

Ideas into Action: small steps for Big Change 24/6/04

 

Conference report  - pdf document

 

Presentations: available as either powerpoint (ppt) or pdf

Please click on the format you wish to download

 

V. Stobbart -  patient safety agenda  ppt    pdf

S.Taylor - hospital liason service  ppt    pdf

J. Devine and S Dawson  A long and winding road  ppt   pdf

R. Owens, R. Robson  Health Advisors  ppt   pdf

R. Chambers  Clinical Governance Perspectives  ppt  pdf

A. Green  PALS     ppt   pdf

O. Barr  Research in Northern Ireland   ppt   pdf

L. Hannon  Pre-Admission Assessment   ppt   pdf

A. Williamson  Benchmarks - using hospital services ppt  pdf

A. Kent  Using passports to access acute services   ppt  pdf

Lesley and Ann Sharing the Sheffield Experience ppt  pdf

 

RCN conference 2005

Owen Barr when 2 world collide;  Rick Robson and Ricky Owens   ppt (v.large file)   pdf

The "Access to Acute" Project Report

The "Access to Acute" Project Report and Appendices are available here courtesy of Rick Robson, Senior Nurse, Specialist Healthcare - Learning Disabilities, Shropshire County PCT. Any queries can be directed to Rick at Tel: 01743 261 181, Email: Rick.Robson@shropshirepct.nhs.uk

Technical note - please read!
The documents are available to download as Word documents (with .doc file name extensions) or as PDF files (viewable in Adobe Acrobat Reader). In some cases, due to technical problems, it has not been possible to provide the documents as PDF files.

Some of these file sizes are quite large, so depending on the speed of your modem you might need to be patient while they download.

A2A Updates form

A2A Project Report (report.pdf)
A2A Project Report (report.doc)

Appendices

Appendix 1 - Good Practice (app1.pdf)
Appendix 1 - Good Practice (app1.doc)

Appendix 2 - Essence of Care (app2.doc)

Appendix 3 - Collaborative Care Report (app3.pdf)
Appendix 3 - Collaborative Care Report (app3.doc)

Appendix 4a - Disabling Practice (app4a.pdf)
Appendix 4a - Disabling Practice (app4a.doc)

Appendix 4b - Group Exercise (app4b.pdf)
Appendix 4b - Group Exercise (app4b.doc)

Appendix 5b - Accident and Emergency Guidelines (app5b.pdf)
Appendix 5b - Accident and Emergency Guidelines (app5b.doc)

Appendix 5c - Protocol for Admission (app5c.doc)

Appendix 5d - RNIB document (app5d.pdf)
Appendix 5d - RNIB document (app5d.doc)

Appendix 6a - Barnet Healthcare (app6a.pdf)
Appendix 6a - Barnet Healthcare (app6a.doc)

Appendix 6b - Patient Passport (app6b.pdf)
Appendix 6b - Patient Passport (app6b.doc)

Appendix 6e - Pre admission assessment (app6e.pdf)
Appendix 6e - Pre admission assessment (app6e.doc)

Appendix 6f - Referral Form (app6f.pdf)
Appendix 6f - Referral Form (app6f.doc)

Appendix 7 - Bibliography (app7.pdf)
Appendix 7 - Bibliography (app7.doc)

Appendix 8 - Acknowledgments (app8.pdf)
Appendix 8 - Acknowledgments (app8.doc)

Other Reports and Resources

Dysphagia  - Meeting nutritional needs

Dysphagia - Hard Act to Swallow - presentation

Brief Guide PARR1 and PARR2

Essence of Care benchmarking report

Bristol resource file for acute hospitals (word)

Bristol resource file for acute hospitals (pdf)Secondary Healthcare for People with a Learning Disability - a report for the Department of Health, 2000 (rep1.pdf)
Secondary Healthcare for People with a Learning Disability - a report for the Department of Health, 2000 (rep1.doc)

Gloucestershire Traffic Light Assessment v 2

Supporting people with LD - Handy Hints

Video from British Heart Foundation "I'm gonna go for it" - makes hospital experience clearer for people with a learning disability and their families - purchase from Photosymbols or email vince@photosymbols.com for further details

Sheffield Guidelines re funding  (2 docs)  document one;

document two

All About Me - document to aid hospital admission  

End of Life Leaflet

Promoting Equality - DH response to DRC

Death By Indifference Report

Death By Indifference Accessible Version

 

Standards and Protocols

Care Protocols (Sheffield Trust Hospitals) (word)

Standards for Patients with a learning disability (word)