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Have you completed the self-assessment tool?

If you have already completed the self-assessment tool, use these resources to implement change for each of the key actions.

  1. There are local champions, mentors and/or key contacts for improved healthcare for people with intellectual disability within the health service
  2. A senior staff member of the health service leads the coordination of responses to disability issues
  1. All staff (including clerical and clinical staff) are provided with disability awareness training, including a values and attitudes component
  1. People with intellectual disability are identified in health service records, including whether they are participants in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
    • Queensland Metro Health South. Health equity and access - Fact sheets which also highlights possible reasonable adjustments.
    • Council for Intellectual Disability. My health matters - Easy read folder made to improve communication that includes NDIS information.
  2. Policies and procedures are reviewed for their impact on inclusiveness of people with intellectual disability
  1. People with intellectual disability and their carers are involved in healthcare planning and setting health goals in respect to their own healthcare
  1. There is a specific health service strategy and plan for intellectual disability and mental health, which includes the involvement of justice health and ambulance services

  1. The health service has its own policies and procedures for the implementation of a statewide hospitalisation policy directive, which includes, or is specific to, people with intellectual disability
  1. People with intellectual disability who have chronic disease are supported to access chronic disease management, out-of-hospital and preventative health programs
  1. Local service mapping and liaison has been undertaken in the health service to identify all community disability services and ability linkers and National Disability Insurance Agency outlets
  1. Links have been established between the health service and specialised disability health teams. There is consultation regarding developing protocols about hospital admissions, discharges and emergency department admissions for people with intellectual disability