
LTHT LD and Autism
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We’ve given out more than 2,000 acute care bags to help our autistic patients and patients with a learning disability cope with our busy Emergency Departments. Thanks to funding from Leeds Hospitals Charity care bags will now be provided in all acute care areas across our hospitals!


Hear from staff how our acute care bags are making a difference for autistic patients and patients with a learning disability in our hospitals. Leeds Hospitals Charity Leeds Emergency Departments LTHT LD and Autism


It's #LearningDisabilityNursesDay! Leeds Teaching Hospitals is lucky to have a team of incredible #AcuteLiaison nurses who help our staff to support our patients with #LearningDisabilities They make a difference every day 🌟 #RNLD #ChooseLDNursing




Our next NED talk is on Thursday 14th November and open to all sectors West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership the focus this month is hospital support for people with a learning disability and autisitc people LTHT LD and Autism #learningdisability #autismadhdallies




Thank you Alison for sharing the amazing work the team does LTHT LD and Autism #learningdisability #autism West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership


This week we have been supporting our Tissue Viability team to #StopThePressure We have been sharing easy read leaflets to our patients Leeds Teaching Hospitals , helping them to understand more about pressure damage and how to prevent it 🌟


New research paper led by Amrit (Bhatti) Chauhan exploring autistic children's experiences of oral health behaviours (toothbrushing, limiting sugary foods & drinks and going to the dentist). Findings from our toothPASTE project National Institute for Health and Care Research NIHR Yorkshire & Humber ARC National Autistic Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…



The wonderful #Opthalmology team Leeds Teaching Hospitals have made this video to share the work which they do to support our patients. THANK YOU! youtube.com/watch?v=POe8-h… Head & Neck CSU

We have decided to close this account. We will be in touch soon with the people we support, to ask which social media platform is best for them. To contact the team, email [email protected] or call 0113 2066836. Outside office hours please talk to the ward staff.
