Here you can find some useful information about Admission Avoidance and Discharge Pathway including becoming an Expert-by-Experience and feedback about LDA Admission Avoidance and Discharge Team.
1. Becoming an Expert-by-Experience
Involving people with lived experience has been an important part of Admissions Avoidance and Discharge work for many years. This has included working closely with SpeakEasy N.O.W. to involve people with a learning disability, when planning and reviewing services and making sure that information is accessible.
This has included people with a learning disability co-delivering training workshops for local health and social care staff, attending Admissions Avoidance and Discharge oversight meetings and helping to recruit new staff to the Admissions Avoidance and Discharge team.
SpeakEasy N.O.W. coordinates Experts-by-Experience to attend Care, Education and Treatment Reviews, as part of a CETR Hub. This includes people with their own lived experience and experience as a parent or carer. This ensures that people with lived experience of learning disability and Autism are involved in reviewing the care of all those who are at risk of admission or who are inpatients. It also ensures that Experts-by-Experience receive payment and support for their important role in this work.
For more information about becoming an Expert-by-Experience, please contact SpeakEasy N.O.W. mail
