New Learning Disability team

July 30, 2024

The Trust has a new Learning Disability team that will be offering their services to patients who typically face barriers to accessing health and care.

People with a learning disability often have poorer physical and mental health than those who don’t and are dying earlier than they should, many from things which could have been treated or prevented entirely.

Recently moving from the Community Learning Disability team, the team has strong links there and extensive knowledge of support and service in the community. As a service, the team will aim to:

• Reduce health inequalities
• Supporting with reasonable adjustments
• Stopping diagnostic overshadowing – where a person’s ill health is attributed to their learning disability, leading to them not receiving equitable investigations and treatments

If you require any more information or have any questions for the team, please email dawn.love1@nhs.net or charlotte.horton6@nhs.net. Alternatively you can call either 0121 553 1831 or 0121 507 4349.