Learning disability and Autism service
We know that coming to the hospital can be a worrying time for anyone and we want to improve our services for people with a learning disability and autistic people.
We can help with:
- Planning admissions
- Supporting people with a learning disability and autistic people during hospital visits or stays.
- Checking reasonable adjustments are put in place
- Promoting the use of health passports
- Making sure hospital staff are aware about your needs
- Communication, including accessible information
- Support and advice for patients, families and carers
- Training
Hospital Passport
A health passport is a document about people and their health need, but It also has other useful information, such as interests, likes, dislikes, how people like to communicate and any reasonable adjustments that they might need.
Click here to download the health passport.
Rethink Advocacy
Advocacy can help people to havea say about what happens in their life.
Rethink Advocacy is passionate and committed to supporting people to ensure they have a good quality of life. Their aim is to support both people who are confident to speak up for themselves with support or to represent their views for them when they cannot.
In Hackney they provide the following services:
- Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA)
- Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA)
- Independent Care Act Advocacy (ICAA)
- Independent Health Complaints Advocacy Service (IHCAS)
- Non-statutory Advocacy (including alternative types of advocacy such as peer advocacy, citizen advocacy, group advocacy and self-advocacy)
You can download an easy read leaflet about advocacy here
People Participation
