Autism and Learning Disability: Health Services

(asked on 27th February 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) his Department, (b) NHS England, (c) private providers of inpatient services and (d) integrated care systems are taking steps to implement the recommendations of the report by NHS England entitled Safe and wellbeing reviews: thematic review and lessons learned, published on 21 February 2023.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 2nd March 2023

‘The safe and wellbeing reviews: thematic review and lessons learned’ report does not make recommendations but sets out important findings and learning points relevant to everyone involved in commissioning or delivering mental health community and inpatient provision. Integrated care systems have been putting in place actions to address the themes highlighted.

NHS England has taken learnings from the Safe and Wellbeing Review programme to inform work to support timely discharge from mental health inpatient care and to improve the quality of care for people with a learning disability and autistic people. This includes the new Quality Transformation Programme and the refreshed Dynamic support register and Care (Education) and Treatment Review policy and guidance.

The Building the Right Support Action Plan, published 14 July 2022, outlines actions we are taking to keep people with a learning disability and autistic people safe and was developed considering findings from safe and wellbeing reviews. The Action Plan includes work to check that people with a learning disability and autistic people in mental health inpatient care have received a safe and wellbeing review.

We will continue to work with NHS England to ensure we properly embed the report’s findings as part of our ongoing programmes of work.

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