Chair of the LD Partnership Board (or and measure the actions and plans Training and skills for staff across equivalent) and Urgent Care work stream emanating from the UC strategy and agencies to support PWLD and their ensure challenge and support to families October 2016. ensure reasonable adjustments Provide more time for supporting PWLD This is a commitment to move and families. towards universal crisis services Reduced inequality of access. through the transformation process Speedier and appropriate response to the needs of PWLD in crisis to support their dual need of MH and LD support Update July 2015 Gateshead Council is in the process of opening a quiet room designed to be autism friendly. This room will be accessible to all people in Gateshead who visit the civic centre. Gateshead Council has Service Improvement Groups attended by service users and carers to ensure that all of the work that we do in adult social care is quality checked and influenced by those it affects. Gateshead Council Adult Social Care has easy read documents and computer technology to ease access to information and increase people’s ability to participate in assessments and reviews. Gateshead Council Adult Social Care teams receive regular training in all legal and practice areas pertaining to mental health, learning disability and autism. All staff has had specialist autism training. Update July 2016 The Transforming Board and the sub groups engage with Confirm and Challenge groups to ensure all aspects of the Transforming Care developments (reducing use of MH hospital beds for people with LD or autism through effective community treatment and care) are appropriate throughout the patient journey including crisis. There is a focus on communication and engagement including easy read materials to either avoid crisis or to ensure pathways to support as crisis arises are available and known. Objectives, Lead. Timescale. Actions Outcomes RAG Crisis services and residential alternatives to 2.6 To further assess and develop crisis and To be included in the needs assessment hospital admission should be culturally competent urgent care support for BME, LGBT, Kahilla of the urgent care work stream. and accessible to people from and minority community, refugees and people seeking ethnic communities. asylum, new EU migrants, homeless and Need to focus upon higher risk groups complex service users within the population Patients under enhanced Care Programme Approach have crisis plans in place that MHPB and urgent care work stream group multiagency case reviews for complex specifically address how to minimise the risk of June 2016 cases coercive interventions
Chair of the LD Partnership Board (or equivalent) and Urgent Care work stream October 2016. and measure the actions and plans emanating from the UC strategy and ensure challenge and support to ensure reasonable adjustments This is a commitment to move towards universal crisis services through the transformation process Training and skills for staff across agencies to support PWLD and their families Provide more time for supporting PWLD and families. Reduced inequality of access. Speedier and appropriate response to the needs of PWLD in crisis to support their dual need of MH and LD support Update July 2015 Gateshead Council is in the process of opening a quiet room designed to be autism friendly. This room will be accessible to all people in Gateshead who visit the civic centre. Gateshead Council has Service Improvement Groups attended by service users and carers to ensure that all of the work that we do in adult social care is quality checked and influenced by those it affects. Gateshead Council Adult Social Care has easy read documents and computer technology to ease access to information and increase people’s ability to participate in assessments and reviews. Gateshead Council Adult Social Care teams receive regular training in all legal and practice areas pertaining to mental health, learning disability and autism. All staff has had specialist autism training. Update July 2016 The Transforming Board and the sub groups engage with Confirm and Challenge groups to ensure all aspects of the Transforming Care developments (reducing use of MH hospital beds for people with LD or autism through effective community treatment and care) are appropriate throughout the patient journey including crisis. There is a focus on communication and engagement including easy read materials to either avoid crisis or to ensure pathways to support as crisis arises are available and known. Objectives, Lead. Timescale. Actions Outcomes RAG 2.6 To further assess and develop crisis and urgent care support for BME, LGBT, Kahilla community, refugees and people seeking asylum, new EU migrants, homeless and complex service users MHPB and urgent care work stream group June 2016 To be included in the needs assessment of the urgent care work stream. Need to focus upon higher risk groups within the population multiagency case reviews for complex cases Crisis services and residential alternatives to hospital admission should be culturally competent and accessible to people from and minority ethnic communities. Patients under enhanced Care Programme Approach have crisis plans in place that specifically address how to minimise the risk of coercive interventions
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