NHS longterm plan

Question 1

What is the aim of the NHS Long Term Plan for people with autism and learning disabilties?

Answer 1

• Improve community-based support so that people can lead lives of their choosing in homes not hospitals.
• Develop a clearer and more widespread focus on the needs of autistic people and their families.
• Make sure that all NHS commissioned services are providing good quality health, care and treatment to people with a learning disability and autistic people and their families.
• Support NHS staff to make reasonable adjustments.
• Reduce health inequalities: Stopping The Over-Medication of children and young People with a learning disability, autism or both (STOMP) and Supporting Treatment and Appropriate Medication in Paediatrics (STAMP) programmes and taking action to prevent avoidable deaths through learning from deaths reviews (LeDeR).
• Continue to champion the insight and strengths of people with lived experience and their families in all of our work and become a model employer of people with a learning disability and of autistic people.
• Make sure that the whole NHS has an awareness of the needs of people with a learning disability and autistic people, working together to improve the way it cares, supports, listens to, works with and improves the health and wellbeing of them and their families.

Question 2

What is the aim of the NHS Long Term Plan for ageing well?

Answer 2

• Promote a multidisciplinary team approach where doctors, nurses and other allied health professionals work together in an integrated way.
• Give people more say about the care and support they receive, particularly towards the end of their lives
• Offer more support for people who look after family members, partners or friends because of their illness, frailty or disability
• Develop more rapid community response teams, to support older people with health issues before they need hospital treatment and help those leaving hospital to return and recover at home
• Offer more NHS support in care homes including making sure there are strong links between care homes, local general practices and community services.

Question 3

What is the aim of the NHS Long Term Plan for mental health?

Answer 3

• Transform mental health care so more people can access treatment by increasing funding at a faster rate than the overall NHS budget – and by at least £2.3bn a year by 2023/24.
• Make it easier and quicker for people of all ages to receive mental health crisis care, around the clock, 365 days a year, including through NHS 111.
• Expand specialist mental health care for mothers during and following pregnancy.
• Expand services, including through schools and colleges, so that an extra 345,000 children and young people aged 0-25 can get support when they need it, in ways that work better for them.
• Continue to develop services in the community and hospitals, including talking therapies and mental health liaison teams, to provide the right level of care for hundreds of thousands more people with common or severe mental illnesses.