Wellbeing Primary Care Liaison Service
The Learning Disability Wellbeing Service helps to address the physical health inequalities experienced by people with a learning disability by raising awareness of these issues, reducing the stigma surrounding them and increasing levels of social inclusion by:
- Supporting GP practices across Hull to increase uptake of learning disability and serious mental illness annual health checks.
- Reducing barriers that patients face when accessing health care appointments, supporting with identifying and implementing reasonable adjustments.
- Delivering training for Hull PCNs and internall for CHCP services including learning disability awareness, learning disability health checks, serious mental illness awareness, serious mental illness health checks and reasonable adjustments.
- Creating resources such as communication boards for patients, parents and carers and health professionals to support with communication and reasonable adjustments.
- Creating and delivering LD roadshows and health promotion sessions to provide education on key priorities heart health, healthy relationships, cancer screening, bowel health and mental health.
- Being a fast follower of the NHSE Reasonable Adjustment Digital Flag project.
- Providing service and environmental audits to ensure we are meeting the accessible information standard and reasonable adjustment needs.
