Refocusing health and wellbeing for people with a learning disability: the action we need

Agenda

Registration and coffee

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

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

The future of learning disability nursing

David Harling, National Deputy Director for Learning Disability Nursing at NHS England.

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.

Coffee break

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

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

Lunch

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

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

Breakout sessions

Session one:

Workforce crisis – who do we recruit and how?

Session two:

The importance of sharing best practice to reduce health inequality

Panel debate: Putting policy into practice: the action we need

Chair’s closing comments