{"id":27730,"date":"2022-08-15T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/?p=27730"},"modified":"2022-08-10T12:47:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T11:47:11","slug":"disabled-people-and-health-care-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2022\/08\/15\/disabled-people-and-health-care-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Disabled people and health care services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Getting our voices heard<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Disabled people face poorer experiences of \u2013 and worse access to \u2013 health and care services than people who aren\u2019t disabled and these health inequalities have been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. In this context, it\u2019s vitally important to include disabled people in planning, designing and developing health and care services. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingsfund.org.uk\/publications\/partnership-disabled-people-health-care-services?utm_source=The%20King%27s%20Fund%20newsletters%20%28main%20account%29&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=13370184_NEWSL_HWB-2022-08-08&amp;dm_i=21A8,7YKI0,3COYDR,WJCKU,1#key-messages\">King&#8217;s Fund\u00a0long read<\/a>, with Disability Rights UK\u00a0sets out what we found out about how disabled people are currently involved in health and care service design, and what good might look like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key messages include: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>60 per cent of those who died from Covid-19 in the first year of the pandemic were disabled. The health inequalities disabled people already faced were made worse by the pandemic and a decade of austerity. In this context, it\u2019s vitally important to include disabled people in designing and planning health and care system responses.<\/li><li>Health and care services need to understand the broad diversity of disabled people\u2019s identities and experiences, and adopt a social model approach to disability, understanding that people are disabled by barriers in society, rather than by impairments or health conditions.<\/li><li>Health and care professionals need to value disabled people\u2019s expertise through properly recognising the value of lived experience and ensure disabled people\u2019s voices are central to any plans right from the start.<\/li><li>Disabled health and care staff are potential partners in this work, with their perspectives of both using and delivering services.<\/li><li>Disabled people\u2019s organisations (DPOs) can strengthen their impact by working with other local DPOs and user-led organisations, understanding which parts of health and care systems they can best influence, and supporting health and care organisations to meaningfully engage with disabled people.<\/li><li>Both health and care organisations and DPOs need to improve their understanding of how people\u2019s multiple identities shape their experiences, and embrace diversity of voices, opinions and challenges as an opportunity to think differently.<\/li><li>Ensuring disabled people\u2019s voices are heard requires constant attention. While there are some examples of good practice, we heard many stories we heard where involvement wasn\u2019t happening or felt tokenistic.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>(The King&#8217;s Fund) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting our voices heard Disabled people face poorer experiences of \u2013 and worse access to \u2013 health and care services than people who aren\u2019t disabled and these health inequalities have been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. In this context, it\u2019s vitally important to include disabled people in planning, designing and developing health and care services. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2022\/08\/15\/disabled-people-and-health-care-services\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Disabled people and health care services&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102,155],"tags":[6616,8291,8290,7790,2805,4185,8292],"class_list":["post-27730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-nhs","tag-covid-19-2","tag-designing-health-and-care-responses","tag-disabled-people","tag-health-care-services","tag-health-inequalities","tag-pandemic","tag-social-model-approach"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27731,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27730\/revisions\/27731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}