Issue - meetings
Access to Health Services for People with Learning Disabilities
Meeting: 14/09/2010 - Executive (Item 10)
10 Access to health sites for people with learning disabilities task group - final report PDF 81 KB
The access to health sites for people with learning disabilities task group has completed its review and reported its findings to the Health Select Committee. That committee has endorsed the recommendations in the task group’s report and they are now being presented to the Executive for approval.
Additional documents:
Decision:
(i) that agreement be given to the recommendations set out in the Task Group report;
(ii) that members of the task group be thanked for their work.
Minutes:
Councillor R Moher (Lead Member, Adults, Health and Social Care) and also a member of the task group, introduced the report and set out for the Executive some of the problems experienced by people with learning disabilities in accessing health facilities. The task group had visited venues and conducted many interviews. She emphasised the need for staff to be trained on the needs of people with learning disabilities. Councillor Moher drew attention to one of the recommendations in the report which Brent NHS had agreed to develop namely to develop a project similar to that which exists in LB Ealing which has a range of measures to improve the experience for patients with learning disabilities when they use services at Ealing Hospital. In the current financial climate it was now unclear if this would be progressed.
Members thanked the task group for their work.
RESOLVED:-
(i) that agreement be given to the recommendations set out in the Task Group report;
(ii) that members of the task group be thanked for their work.