Sharon Bell a member of Sunderland People First helped us this morning to produce an accessible leaflet for Community Dentistry and the Surgical Day Case Unit at City Hospitals Sunderland. Sharon posed for us while we took photographs for a leaflet we are in the process of making to help people with learning disabilities understand what it is like to come into hospital.
Sharon was a great patient and fortunately did not really have an operation today! Thank you to you all !
If you have had an annual health check lately or you are going to be having one this year we would really like you to tell us about it.
You can do this in two ways.
After you come out of the annual health check fill in the questionnaire and post it in the box at reception. Ask the person who did your check for a questionnaire or you can print one off here or in the Going to the Doctors section.
We have now added Recite Me to the website. This is a fantastic system that allows you to click on the SPEAK button and all of the text on the pages and documents will be spoken to you.
As you will agree for people who can not read or have some sight impairment this is a fantastic idea!
It will also make the text size larger and change the background colours if you find this easier.
Sunderland clinical commissioning group felt that the work that had been carried out to provide this website was really good and that we should put in for an award.
The website was one of three nominations in the Patient Champion Catorgory for the North East Leadership Academy Awards at the Baltic in Newcastle yesterday.
Althought we did not win the overall award we were runners up and delighted to recieve the recognition.
We met Simon Weston who presented the awards and was a fantastic speaker and an inspiration to us all!
I would just like to extend my thanks again to Gillian Jackson and all the members of the Patient forum who make this website accessible to all.
We are pleased to let you know thats lots of new information has been added today!
This includes lots of information on different services offered by the Community Learning Disability Team based at Monkwearmouth Hospital in Sunderland.
It includes
Physiotherapy, Psychology, Speech and Language therapy, Epilepsy Specialist Service, Health Promoters and Getting Help from Learning Disability Services.
Please take a look by clicking on the Home Page then select Community Learning disability Team.
Downs syndrome UK are focusing on vision this month! Our local Optometrist who is based at Sundelrand Eye Infirmary, Simon Berry and who also has a practice in Durham has wrote a great article for parents and carers of children with Downs Syndrome, plese click on the link below for more information
The audiology department at Sunderland Royal have just produced a great leaflet that will help people with a learning disability understand their services. Please take a look!
How do we work together to make services better?
Workshop Tuesday 27th October 2015
What is this about?
We at Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust want to start involving more people with Learning Disabilities and family members in how services are run.
• To help us work out how we do this, Inclusion North are going to help us run a workshop at:
Thistle County Hotel
(opposite Central Station)
Neville Street,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE1 5DF.
The workshop will be from 10.30am – 3pm
Please click on the flyer to see how to book a place.
