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Preventing Death by Indifference - £52,300 Award
The award winning access to healthcare Toolkit for generic healthcare staff supporting people with a learning disability in acute care settings is now three years old and requires timely updating.
Funding has been awarded by the West Midland's LETC to enable a collaborative working group, led by Professor Sue Read, School of Nursing and Midwifery and involving people with a learning disability, parents, clinicians, advocates and academics at Keele to update the existing Toolkit for implementation across local UHNS NHS Trust and Staffordshire hospitals (thus expanding its local use).
New themes will include important contemporary areas such as safeguarding; dementia; visiting the GP; having complex health needs; and autism; the funding will also enable formal evaluation of the Toolkit's impact from an individual, family, and healthcare professional perspective.
The ultimate aim of this project it to build on the strengths of the existing Toolkit and develop, design and update the contents so that it remains fit for contemporary healthcare practice.
This and further research from the school can be found on the following page: Research
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