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Tom Cahill, National Director for Learning Disability and Autism asks colleagues working across the NHS to think about what more you can do to support people with a learning disability to receive the right care and support in this short film.

Watch this film where Shane talks about the difference the reduction of medication has made to his life.

Health and social care professionals can now access new eLearning sessions (modules 7-9) on stopping the overmedication of people with a learning disability and autistic people developed in partnership with @MindEdUK.

Colleagues are also encouraged to share module 10 with people with lived experience and their family carers.

From Learning Disability Week we have shown how the NHS is helping people to live longer, happier healthier lives by supporting staff and the families of people with a learning disability to provide the right care and support.

We have started to roll out the Reasonable Adjustments Digital flag across the NHS and publicly funded care. ​Please access free staff training to implement the Reasonable Adjustment Digital Flag – helping it to become part of a standard approach to care and treatment for all disabled people.​

You can watch this informative film about what reasonable adjustments are and the type of reasonable adjustments people with a learning disability and autistic people might need.

Improving the lives of people with a learning disabilities is vital to achieving the NHS ambition of delivering better patient care.

As part of Learning Disability Week NHS England has produced three videos designed to raise the profile of various Allied Health Professional (AHP) roles in services that care for people with a learning disability and autistic people and highlight their impact on care and in improving the health outcomes.

You can find all three videos on the Workforce, Training and Education Youtube channel.