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Valuing Health for All
Action Guide on PCTs and the health of people with learning
disabilities
Description: Valuing Health for All is the result of a three year
project supported by the Department of Health, promoting the constructive
engagement of PCTs in improving health outcomes for people with
learning disabilities. Twelve project sites across England explored
the strategic and practitioner links needed to address health inequalities
and improve access to health services. Local 'champions' played
a key role in ensuring that people with learning disabilities were
included in mainstream health priorities and activities such as
NSF implementation and the development of PALS. Involvement of self
advocates has been a powerful experience.
Author/s: A Giraud Saunders, M Gregory, R Poxton, C Smith,
D Towell
ISBN:1 904488 00 5
Published by: IAHSP, King’s College London 2003
Price: £7.50
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Include Us Too
Developing and Improving Services to meet the mental health needs
of people with learning disabilities.
A Workbook for Commissioners and Managers in mental health and learning
disability services. This workbook is about helping people with
learning disabilities to maintain good mental health or to have
a good lifestyle and good support if they have mental health problems.
It is about what commissioners and managers can do to secure positive
outcomes for people… outcomes indicated in national policy
documents like the National Service Framework for Mental Health,
in Valuing People (the White Paper on learning disability service)
and in Joint Investment Planning Initiatives.
Author: Angela Cole
ISBN: 0 954 1586 5 2
Published by: IAHSP, King’s College London 2002. Produced
in partnership with The Judith Trust
Cost: £15.00
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Changing Days
More than 60,000 people with learning difficulties in England and
Wales attend segregated day centres. Changing Days is a practical
guide that explores new opportunities by moving from day services
to a service based on a specific area, giving pointers for managers,
staff, users and their families.
Author: Edited by Alison Wertheimer
ISBN: 1 85717 106 3
Published by: King’s Fund 1996
Cost: £14.99
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Days of Change
A practical guide to developing better day opportunities
with people with learning disabilities
This book will inform and inspire anyone who works with people with
learning difficulties. With practical suggestions and personal stories,
it shows how best to achieve the integration of adults with learning
difficulties into the community. The first section of the book is
an easy-to-read summary of the main points, written in an accessible
style suitable for readers with learning difficulties.
Author/s: Edited by B. McIntosh and A. Whittaker
ISBN: 1 85717 179 9
Published by: King’s Fund 1998
Cost: £15.99
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Unlocking the Future
Developing new lifestyles with people who have complex disabilities
Focusing on people with complex disabilities and very high support
needs, this book explores ways in which services need to move away
from segregated provision to providing individual lifestyles in
the community, based on a person’s own wishes and needs.
Author/s: Edited by B. McIntosh and A. Whittaker
ISBN: 1 85717 400 3
Published by: King’s Fund 2000
Cost: £15.99
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