Improving Health and Lives:
Learning Disabilities Observatory
First National Conference
22nd September 2011, London
Please see below to download conference presentations
Rights and Health: putting Healthcare Right
The conference offered an opportunity to
- Find out what Improving Health and Lives has been doing since April 2010
- Help us think about how to make the most of the new NHS
- Get better health care for people with learning disabilities
- Reduce inequalities
This event brought together:
- Learning Disability Observatory expertise in the field of disabilities reserach, public health and policy implentation.
- Leaders in the equalities, health service and local government fields
- Self-advocates and family carers
- a wide range of individuals working to commission and provide health and care services for people with a learning disabilty
Please click on the links below to download the conference presentations
Eric Emerson - Health Inequalities and Children with Learning Disabilities
Gyles Glover - Death and Hospitalisation, What the Numbers tell Us
Geoff Baines - Commissioning in the new NHS world
Matt Hoghton - Health Checks - What has been acheived and how do we assure future progress?
Hazel Roberts - Reasonable Adjustments
NHS Kent & Medway - Doing it Locally
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly - Equal Access to Screening?
Gyles Glover - Monitoring Disability Equality
