Case studies
We know that the transforming care programme is making a difference to people’s lives.
Our projects are:
- helping people live in homes and not hospitals
- building more services in the community
- improving people’s health, quality of care and quality of life.
Our case studies tell you how services are changing to make this happen and how real people are having their lives and care transformed. To find out more about our work you can follow us on Twitter via the account @NHSAbility or the hashtag #CareTransformed.
If you have an example of where something is working really well in learning disability services that you would like us to share, please contact the team at: england.si-communications@nhs.net or engage@nhs.net.
Annual health checks
- Thurrock: health checks for people with a learning disability goes up by almost a third in one year
- Training GPs about health checks in Oxford
Care and treatment reviews
- Social enterprise is helping to make care and treatment reviews better
- Mark leaves hospital and moves back home, thanks to new online tool
- New ways of supporting children and young people to stay at home
- “Being an expert by experience has made me feel differently about my own learning disability”
Employment
Moving out of hospital
- Martin’s story – Martin shows us his new home in Lincolnshire
- Closing the inpatient unit – working together in Lincolnshire
- Kevin’s story: The sky’s the limit’
- A place to go for people in crisis: Durham
Personalisation and choice
- Katy and Jackie’s story
- Thomas and David’s story
- Christina uses a personal health budget to get more appropriate care
Reasonable adjustments
- Learning Disability week – Nursing case studies
- Creating the right environment for people with a learning disability to have their COVID vaccine
Services for children and young people
- Early intervention service is supporting families when and where they need it
- Christina uses a personal health budget to get the best care
- Personal health budget is helping James live at home
- Extra support to keep children and young people out of hospital
- New ways of supporting children and young people to stay at home
Stopping over-medication of people (STOMP)
- Stopping over-medication: Ricky and Andy’s story
- Helping people get the right medicines in Bury
- Helping Andrew to stop taking the wrong medicines in Hertfordshire
- Helping Andrew to stop taking the wrong medicines in Hertfordshire (in easy read)
- A bright future for Graham
- Make a choice, take a chance and life can change
- Peter is living the life he chooses thanks to STOMP
Support in the community
Use of technology
Transforming care
- Improving health – Andrew’s story
- Hertfordshire: making transforming care work for children and young people
- Making transforming care work for children, young people and families: bringing Josh home to Cornwall
Case studies from other organisations
- Affinity Trust: Meet Ruth
- Arden Transforming Care Partnership and HOLD (Home ownership for people with long-term disabilities) in the Midlands
- Clare’s story: Turning Point
- Johnathan’s story
- Pete and Michelle’s story
- A message to employers
- Sharing lives, improving lives
- Benefits of working for NHS England – Alana’s story
- Changing Care in Cumbria and the North East
- Peter’s story: Future directions
- Case studies from Building the Right Support: one year on, 8 November 2016
- Empowerment films by the Local Government Association
- NHS 111: an inclusive service
- Personal health budgets for people with a learning disability
- Digital stories by Patient Voices