Our planOur planfor 2010 -2011for 2010 -2011

Health Task GroupHealth Task Group

The NHS is working to help people with learning disabilities be healthy.

This work is done with the Partnership Board in Leedsand with other health services in Leeds.

The Health Task Group helps make sure this work is done.

This is our plan for 2011 to 2012.

The plan says our targets.

These are the things we want to get right in 2011 and 2012.

Health checks

We will make sure there are more health checks.People getting checked out helps find out what they need to be healthy.

We will keep finding out if more people are having health checks.

We want to include everyone.

Some groups of people tend to have less checks than others.We will work hard to help these groups have more checks.These groups include people who are blackor from minority ethnic groups.

We will find out what support these groups need to help themhave more checks.

In January 2011 we will know what to doto help more people have health checks.

We will tell doctors about how to help more peopleto have health checks.

We might also ask doctors for their ideasabout how to help more people.

We will do training for staffabout helping more people have health checks.

This will also help make sure people have good informationabout how to be healthy.

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training

Safe care

We will work to help people be safe when the use health services.

Health services means services the NHS givesand services that work for the NHS.

We will help people be safe by making sure there is good information.

This information will be for people with learning disabilitiesand for their carers.

There will be good information about how to complain.

This will make it easier for people to complainwhen the services they get need to do better.

We will do work to give people good information about safeguarding.

Safeguarding means the rules health services followto help keep people safe.

One idea for giving people good information is to make a DVD.

If we make a DVD as well as other information that is easy to understandthis will help more people get the information about safe care.

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Better services

Valuing People was a government reportabout helping people with learning disabilities.

The report said ways to make health services betterfor people with learning disabilities.

We will make a questionnaire to ask peoplehow health services can help them better.

The questionnaire will ask how health servicescan be more person-centred.

Being person-centred means giving people the help they need.Different people need help in different ways.

Giving people the right kind of help means they are more included in using health services.

The questionnaire will be done by March 2011.

We will use what people tell us in the questionnaireto help plan how to make health services better.

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