Improving Health & Lives

1. Improving Health & Lives Learning Disabilities Observatory www.ihal.org.uk

2. Improving Health & Lives • Two new DH funded initiatives • Learning Disabilities Observatory • Confidential Inquiry • Three-year projects (years two & three dependant on review & resources being available)

3. We Are • North East Public Health Observatory • Centre for Disability Research • National Development Team for Inclusion

4. Observatory Aims • Improve the health of (and reduce health inequalities experienced by) people with learning disabilities in England • Helping people who commission services make better use of information

5. Making Information More Easily Available • Website • Special reports (plus summaries, media engagement)

7. Making Information More Easily Available • Special reports (plus summaries, media engagement) • Defining ‘learning disabilities’ • Uptake of annual health checks • Overview of health inequalities • Effectiveness of health checks • Estimating local need • Use of learning disabilities registers • Annual overview

8. Working Toward Having Better Information • Measuring disability in large-scale health & social surveys • Including markers for disability in administrative data sets • Hospital Episode Statistics • Cancer registries • Practice-based registers

9. Helping People Make Better Use of Information • Working with partners in six pilot sites • Calderdale • Cornwall • Kent • Nottinghamshire • Westminster

10. People with Challenging Behaviours • ‘Priority group’ • Not identified in most existing information systems (?registers?) • Specific projects?

11. www.ihal.org.uk