
Learning Disability Senate
@ldsenate
Bringing together professional leaders in learning/intellectual disabilities. A UK wide, collective voice of specialist health & social care practitioners.
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https://www.bild.org.uk/ldsenate/ 03-12-2018 23:25:37
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Excellent achievement for changing practices in changing times - well done. National Autistic Society NHS England CANDDID Adrian James Royal College of Psychiatrists Lade Smith CBE Ken Courtenay

Shameful not to genuinely support people with learning disabilities in hospital by employing skilled LD nurses. NHS England The RCN NHS Confederation Department of Health and Social Care NHS Employers


🔴Councils that fail to provide school transport for disabled pupils undermine children's right to an education. Putting the onus on families to find - or fight for - solutions is wrong. The British Institute of Human Rights Phoebe Craig, new in Community Living Magazine communitylivingmagazine.com/the-right-to-t…

Very few mental health interventions actually measure quality of life changes experienced by autistic adults. New systematic review led by Amanda Timmerman Amanda Timmerman Liz Pellicano Laura Crane UCL Mental Health Sciences MScs @ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

GMC approves #DualCCT #PsychiatryLD and #ForensicPsychiatry Excellent opportunity to train in two specialties over 5 years. Psychiatric Resident Doctors' Committee (PRDC) Royal College of Psychiatrists Intellectual Disability Trainees UK The Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry NHS England Workforce, Training and Education Subodh Dave ☘️🌻🌞 Humanising Medicine


MHA Bill presented Parliament today. Propose remove #LearningDisability #Autism criteria from civil section 3. Better for people? Impacts of reform? What will people gain/lose? Royal College of Psychiatrists NHS England Department of Health and Social Care Stephen Kinnock gov.uk/government/new…

So much change in community services have to happen before reforms are a reality - housing, support staff, occupational, community services, education, family support. NHS England Department of Health and Social Care LDEngland Mencap

Without s117 aftercare Local Authorities/ICB not obliged to commit to funding support for people? NHS England Department of Health and Social Care Mencap The Challenging Behaviour Foundation LDEngland Baroness Hollins

Nature-based care for people. Learning Disability Today Learning Disability Nurses NHSLanarkshire

Excellent Pan-London Consultant Psychiatrists meeting LondonPsychiatristsID today NHS England Diverse topics presented on #ADHD #Autism and #nature-based interventions to support people. Niall O'Kane Angela Hassiotis ([email protected]) Bhathika Perera Ken Courtenay Learning Disability Senate

Thank you to the co-authors @SamuelJTromans Indermeet Sawhney Mahesh Odiyoor Ken Courtenay @FnLead Regi Alexander Satheesh kumar Gangadharan Ashok Roy, Richard Laugharne Harm Boer Amy Blake, Anu Iyer, Kiran Purandare, Jane McCarty, Stuart Wallace & Vivien Weisner CIDER Research Psychiatry of ID University of Plymouth



Peter Langdon🏳️🌈🇨🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 of Uni of Birmingham presenting on #BEAMS-ID at #IDConf on psychological therapies for anxiety in people with #inteldisabilities Royal College of Psychiatrists BPS Faculty for ID Indermeet Sawhney Learning Disability Senate National Institute for Health and Care Research
