{"id":3591,"date":"2020-08-26T15:25:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T14:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk\/?page_id=3591"},"modified":"2023-09-01T15:35:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T14:35:01","slug":"cancer-pathways-supporting-people-with-a-learning-disability","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk\/pathway\/early-diagnosis\/learning-disability\/cancer-pathways-supporting-people-with-a-learning-disability\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer pathways, supporting people with a learning disability"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Two Week Wait Patient Information Leaflets<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Easy read versions of our Two Week Wait Patient Information leaflets can be found in the Supporting Primary Care section of our website.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk\/pathway\/early-diagnosis\/supporting-primary-care\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Supporting Primary Care<\/a><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Faster Diagnosis Centres<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Cancer Care Co-ordinator and FDS Easy Read Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Network, Be Cancer Aware, the Easy Information Service from Skills for People\u00a0and colleagues from South Tees and the Northern Centre for Cancer Care \u2013 Oncology have co-designed easy read, accessible patient information for the Faster Diagnosis pathways.<\/p>\n<p>The easy read resources are to support people in understanding what a faster diagnostic service is and the role of the cancer care co-ordinator.<\/p>\n<p>The resources can be adapted by Trusts across the region to fit local services.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk\/pathway\/rapid-diagnosis-services\/learning-and-development-resources\/\">Find resources here<\/a><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Targeted Lung Health Checks (TLHC) Learning Disability Pathway<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>We are working in partnership with the Targeted Lung Health Check pilots across the region to embed a reasonably adjusted pathway into the programme offering support to all those who are flagged as having a learning disability on the GP records.<\/p>\n<p>More information on the pathway is available on request.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Radiology General Anaesthetic Pathway<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The North East and Cumbria Learning Disability Network and Northern Cancer Alliance have worked collaboratively to design and develop a reasonably adjusted care pathway for people with learning disabilities who require general anaesthetic [GA] for diagnostic imaging after it emerged there was significant delay, variation and inequality across Cumbria and the North East.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LD-GA-Imaging-pathway-FINAL.pdf\">Imaging under general anaesthetics pathway and guidance<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Be Cancer Aware<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk\/pathway\/early-diagnosis\/learning-disability\/be-cancer-aware\/\">\u2018Be Cancer Aware\u2019<\/a> is FREE peer education training, designed to support people with learning disability, families and carers understand more about cancer.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.necldnetwork.co.uk\/work-programmes\/health-inequalities\/cancer\/be-cancer-aware\/\">Find out more about Be Cancer Aware<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Week Wait Patient Information Leaflets Easy read versions of our Two Week Wait Patient Information leaflets can be found in the Supporting Primary Care section of our website. Supporting Primary Care Faster Diagnosis Centres Cancer Care Co-ordinator and FDS Easy Read Resources The Network, Be Cancer Aware, the Easy Information Service from Skills for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":3582,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3591"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6347,"href":"https:\/\/northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3591\/revisions\/6347"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}