LearningDisability Changing Care-Healthier Futures

Great article by @Saba_Salman, citing @chrishattoncedr’s research finding that almost 40,000 learning disabled people remain unvaccinated, possibly due to health risks, needle phobia or lack of information theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

So many people in the NHS are not aware of the legal frame work- Accessible information standards, by law you have to provide reasonable adjustments to your patients. More training and awareness is needed. bbc.com/news/uk-northe…

Doing my homework following my ‘Easy Read’ training yesterday with team Macintyre Biggest lesson Easy Read are not quick or easy to produce. So glad the Macintyre checking ground are going to give us tips to improve @HealthLD @willenhospice @WillenH_CEO

It seems to me that the real priority here is the calling for learning disabled people's health to improve, not the actual improvement of learning disabled people's health. Otherwise, why the endless calls for action and very little actual action? bbc.com/news/health-57…

“[Practitioners] might have gone through school, then a university degree, nursing or medicine, and they’ve never met another person with a learning disability. ‘ opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra…

So delighted to have Richard's name on my office door! What are the hurdles of employing a researcher with intellectual disabilities at a university? "It makes you feel useful & really proud". Preparing to talk about this at @IASSIDD World Congress next month @derwem @KUStGeorges

As we get closer to the launch of the #YourPostureMatters strategy we thought we would share this short film which is as an example of Your Posture Matters in action!! vimeo.com/557652539/9646… #posturalcare

Important discussion about the uptake of #Covid19 #Vaccines for people with #LearningDisabilities & learning to take forward to think about how to increase uptake of #FluVaccines