Learning Disability Today
Blue Sky Offices Shoreham
25 Cecil Pashley Way
Shoreham-by-Sea
West Sussex
BN43 5FF
United Kingdom
T: 01273 434943
Contacts
Alison Bloomer
Managing Editor
[email protected]
[email protected]
9.30 - 10.00
Registration and coffee
10.00 - 10.15
Chair’s welcome
Chair: Jim Blair, Learning Disability Nurse Consultant
Co-chairs:
Scott Watkin, Head of Engagement, SeeAbility
Lloyd Page, Self-advocate
Dani Harris, Self-advocate
Ismail Kaji, Mencap
Lauretta Ofulue, health visitor and expert by experience
Anna White, expert by experience
10.15 - 10.40
Opening address: all change- my hopes for the future
Baroness Shelia Hollins, Crossbench Peer, House of Lords, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at St George’s, Founder and Chair of Beyond Words
10.40 - 10.50
The future of learning disability nursing
David Harling, National Deputy Director for Learning Disability Nursing at NHS England.
10.50 - 11.15
No more preventable deaths: how to use story-telling to end indifference and bring about change
Sara Ryan, Professor of Social Care at Manchester Metropolitan University
Stephen Unwin, experienced theatre and opera director, writer, teacher and campaigner for the rights of people with learning disabilities.
11.15 - 11.30
Coffee break
11.30 - 12.00
Shifting away from crisis management: translating promises into action:
Ann Keen, Nursing Advisor to Sir Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting
Ismail Kaji, Parliamentary affairs support officer, Mencap
Sir Norman Lamb, former health minister and MP
12.00 - 12.45
Breakout sessions
Session one:
Workforce crisis – who do we recruit and how?
Shevon Dalena, Paediatric Learning Disability Clinical Nurse Specialist, King’s College, London
Session two:
The importance of sharing best practice to reduce health inequality
Adrian Anim, Community Practitioner, Community Learning Disabilities Team, Newcastle
Session three:
How to put people at the heart of their health and wellbeing
Anna White, Learning Disabilities Trainer
12.45 - 13.45
Lunch
13.45 - 14.15
End of life care: making healthcare more accessible
Professor Irene Tuffrey-Wijne, Professor of Intellectual Disability & Palliative Care at Kingston University & St George’s University of London
14.15 - 14.45
We are not the enemies: how joint working can improve the lives of people with a learning disability
Scott Watkin, Head of Engagement, Seeability
Jim Blair, Learning Disability Nurse Consultant
Lauretta Ofulue, health visitor and expert by experience
14.45 - 15.30
Breakout sessions
Session one:
Workforce crisis – who do we recruit and how?
Session two:
The importance of sharing best practice to reduce health inequality
Session three:
How to put people at the heart of their health and wellbeing