Getting help from learning disability services – A guide for service users and carers
A guide for service users and carers about getting help from Learning Disability services.
Resource library
Search our resources library for self help guides, patient information leaflets, mental health and wellbeing information that you may find useful.
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Getting to know you – Think Family Approach
This leaflet provides information about coming into contact within with Trust services, a member of staff will arrange to spend some time with you – to get to know you. Staff will explain how the Trust will work in partnership with you, listen to what you say, and ask questions so that we might work more efficiently, and follow the standards of the Carers’ Charter (please ask a member of staff for a copy).
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Going to Court
This link takes you to the Victim Support Website and gives you details about going to court.
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Good health care for all – what I can expect from the NHS – Easy Read
A booklet for people with learning disabilities, family carers and anyone who supports a person with learning disabilities.
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Good parenting – British Sign Language (BSL) video
This link takes you to the Royal College Psychiatrists and a British Sign Language (BSL) video for Good Parenting .
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Grange Day Hospital, Day Services Sunderland – patient information leaflet
Grange day hospital provides assessment and treatment for older adults who are frail with complex mental health needs. The people who attend have memory problems or functional mental health problems.
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Great North Care Record – Information for patients
The Great North Care Record gives the staff caring for you a more complete picture of your medical history. It does this by making information held about you in different places such as your GP practice or local hospital available to the staff who are looking after you. Being able to access this information helps make your care safer.
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Grieving – How might it feel? – Easy Read
This easy read leaflet tells you about bereavement and grief.
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Guide to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
A beginner's guide from YoungMinds to the NHS's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) for young people and parents.
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Hadrian Unit – Patient Information Leaflet
This leaflet provides information about Hadrian Unit - which is a 20 bed acute mental health inpatient unit based at Carleton Clinic, Cumbria; which has two units one for men and one for women.