Help for People with Learning Disabilities

 

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The Learning Disability Register

A short film about the Learning Disability Register. Liam explains what it is, and why it is important.

 

A Date to Remember

The day has arrived, and Sarah gets ready for her health check. She reminds us not to be too busy to look after our health and not to be worried or frightened to go to our annual health check.

 

The Community Pharmacy

In this short film Blanche visits her local pharmacy to find out what they do and why it should be the first place we go to get health support and advice if it is not a health emergency. 

 

Learning Disability and autism support in South East London

LDA Specialist Prescribing Advisors Thomas Lee, Trang Dinh and Ashika Patel.

Primary Care

  • Improve accuracy of LD register
  • Drive annual health checks
  • Support with complex LDA patients

Care Homes

  • Medicine policy, storage, and record
  • Medicine administration policy
  • Covert administration process

Local Multidisciplinary Teams

  • Community LD teams
  • Mental health in LD teams
  • STOMP working group

Practice, Community and PCN Pharmacists

  • Medicine optimisation
  • Polypharmacy
  • Training and upskilling

STOMP

  • Stopping overmedication in people with LD and/or autism
  • Advice on unnecessary psychotropics

Transforming Care

  • Care and treatment review
  • Medication review
  • Transfer of care

Learn more on the South East London ISC website