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Award Winning Project
Award - Preventing Death by Indifference Team
The toolkit was so well received that the West Midlands SHA funded workshops to integrate it across the West Midlands region; and the Staffordshire and Shropshire Locality Board awarded further funding for the development of eight workshops for local clinicians.
A two year, collaborative project designed to help local health care workers to support people with a learning disability in hospital has won a regional award. The Preventing Death by Indifference Team, led by Dr Sue Read, School of Nursing and Midwifery, received funding from the Staffordshire and Shropshire Locality Board to develop a bespoke toolkit. This multidisciplinary project team included representatives from health (UHNS, NHS Trust), information technology, Asist (a local advocacy organisation), Mencap Advocacy (Stafford), Combined Healthcare NHS Trust, Keele University, North Staffordshire PCT, parents and people with a learning disability. The toolkit was so well received that the West Midlands SHA funded workshops to integrate it across the West Midlands region; and the Staffordshire and Shropshire Locality Board awarded further funding for the development of eight workshops for local clinicians.
The project won the West Midland's Health and Social Care Award for partnership working. The awards ceremony was held Thursday 7th October in Birmingham, where seven team members (including representatives from Keele University, UHNS NHS Trust, Asist, PCT's, and two people with a learning disability) went to hear the outcome and receive the award.
The team were delighted to hear that they had won their category and will now automatically go through to the national awards. This is a wonderful achievement that truly recognises both the importance of this work and the high standard of the toolkit that was produced and embedded across the West Midlands with financial support from the West Midlands SHA and the Staffordshire and Shropshire Locality Board.
Toolkit: My Next Patient Has a Learning Disability
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