1. Enter & View: Right for Everyone

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    The Right for Everyone project was a partnership initiative to investigate how well community health services work for people with learning disabilities. We looked at dental services, GP practices, pharmacy, foot clinics and opticians.

  2. Early Help Streatham Pilot Evaluation

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    In partnership with the Lambeth Council and Lambeth Made we evaluated the Early Help pilot in Streatham. Reframing Early Help Programme aims to improve the Early Help offer to enable families to receive high quality, whole-family support.

  3. Sunflower lanyards – supporting people with hidden disabilities

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    Guy’s and St Thomas’s have launched a sunflower lanyard for their patients and staff. The sunflower lanyards are for people who have a disability that you might not be able to see, and for people who might need extra help.

  4. Enter & View: Hillyard House extra care housing

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    We did an Enter and view at Hillyard House, an extra care housing facility for 41 tenants providing care and support to a mixed clientele including older people, learning disabled adult and younger disabled people, and residents living with dementia.

  5. What support is available for children and young people with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND)?

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    Children and young people with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) in Lambeth can access local support through ‘The Local Offer’, provided by Lambeth Council.

  6. Lambeth SEND and Inclusion Strategy

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    Healthwatch Lambeth engaged with children and young people aiming to hear their views on the Lambeth Council’s SEND and Inclusion Strategy.

  7. Have your say on Lambeth’s All Age Autism Strategy

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    Lambeth council would like views of autistic residents as well as parents and carers

  8. Do you need help getting to hospital?

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    Find out what support is available to help you travel to your hospital appointments.

  9. Care at home that puts people more in control

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    Over the past year, we have been working with Lambeth Council on a project looking into how home care can be improved. The aim was to use design approaches to find ways for home care to be more joined up with other services and to empower people.

  10. CliniQ: South London's first transgender sexual health service

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    King’s College Hospital, CliniQ’s Tuesday service is at the Caldecot Centre, 15-22 Caldecot Road, London, SE5 9RS. It is open every Tuesday from 4:00pm to 7:00pm.

  11. King’s College Hospital rated as ‘requires improvement’

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    The trust was rated ‘requires improvement’ for being safe, effective, responsive and well-led. It was rated ‘good’ for being caring, following the inspection in January and February 2019. Their previous overall rating was also ‘requires improvement'.

  12. Lambeth Learning Disability Assembly - Newsletters

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    Here you can find all past issues of the LLDA newsletter. The newsletter has useful information for Lambeth people with Learning disabilities. It also introduces new services and talks about issues that local people with learning disabilities share.

  13. Finding our way around King's College Hospital

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    In February 2018, three teams visited Kings College Hospital to assess effectiveness and accessibility of signage for people with learning disabilities within the grounds and hospital.

  14. Have your say: Making Brixton streets safer & healthier

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    Healthier and safer streets in and around Brixton. Join the conversation to develop ideas for your neighbourhood. Currently engaging with people on Railton, Loughborough and Ferndale Neighbourhoods.

  15. Help for people with health conditions to look for employment

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    Central London Works (CLW) is a voluntary employment support programme designed to help residents of London boroughs including Lambeth, with a health condition (or who are long-term unemployed) manage their health conditions and look for employment.

  16. New Sexual Health Partnership for people from BAME backgrounds

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    The new Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Sexual Health Partnership aims to increase awareness of sexual health promotion services available to people from BAME backgrounds in the boroughs.

  17. Re-imagining mental health services for Black communities

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    The Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework (PCREF) is running a series of events aimed at achieving anti-racism and equity in South London and Maudsley mental health services.

  18. Vascular Dementia Inequalities for Lambeth’s Black Communities

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    In October 2020, we held an online event with South London and Maudsley Trust (SLaM) and Black Thrive for local people to explore the inequalities linked to vascular dementia experienced by Lambeth’s Black communities.

  19. Addressing food poverty in Lambeth webinar

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    We held a webinar on 23rd February with representatives of Public Health Lambeth to discuss action on food poverty in Lambeth.

  20. EU Settlement Scheme- help for local residents

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    Help is available for Lambeth residents who need to complete an application for the EU Settlement Scheme. 

  21. Understanding Lambeth’s LGBTQI+ communities in times of COVID19

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    The London Met University are carrying out research into the affect of covid19 on health and wellbeing in the LGBQI+ community and are looking to hear from Lambeth residents about their experiences during the pandemic.

  22. VacciNation: Exploring vaccine confidence

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    Healthwatch' new research explores vaccine confidence amongst people from African, Bangladeshi, Caribbean, and Pakistani backgrounds. We want to understand these barriers to ensure key lessons are taken forward for future public health campaigns.

  23. Visit Our South Asian Health and Wellbeing Fair

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    This Health and Wellbeing Fair is for patients who have South Asian heritage i.e. Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi or Sri Lankan heritage/backgrounds.

  24. Share your feedback to improve care in your community

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    ‘Share for Better Care’, a new campaign launched by Healthwatch, aims to help address health inequalities across England.

  25. The Accessible Information Standard - What you can expect from services

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    A year ago the Accessible Information Standard came into force. It requires any organisation providing NHS or social care to communicate in a way that everybody can understand. Here's a reminder of what you should expect.