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Learning disability providers are in a good position to help improve the health of the people they support and also to influence policy to improve how health systems serve people with a learning disability.  This page signposts resources that will be useful to providers in the North East.

North East Health Network

The Health Network is facilitated by Judith Thompson at the Strategic Health Authority- in the learning disability Clinical Innovation Team. The Health Network brings together everyone working to improve the health of people with a learning disability in the North East, sharing good practice and promoting improvements, including around health checking, the self assessment framework and the NE VIP card.

In the summer the network held an "accelerated solutions environment" conference

Getting it right for everyone- learning from the accelerated solutions environment.

Getting it Right- issue 1.  The Learning Disability Clinical Innovation Team's newsletter.

To gain access to the Learning Disability Clinical Innovation website (part of Our Vision, Our Future website). Go to:  http://www.ourvisionourfuture.nhs.uk/

Click on register, this button can be found in the top left hand corner, you will then be presented with the registration process.    Ensure that all fields are completed. Click on register. You will then be sent a temporary password, log into the website and then select each group that you want to join. If you have any queries contact Vicki Dodds at the Strategic Health Authority.

Improving Health and Lives Learning Disabilities Observatory

The Improving Health and Lives Learning Disabilities Observatory aims to keep watch on

• the health of people with learning disabilities
• the health care they receive

They have produced areport around learning disability and health in light of the changing health landscape.  'Health Inequalities and People with learning Disabilities in the UK: 2010 – Implications and actions for commissioners. Evidence into practice – Report No. 1'.