Easy Read

Library and Knowledge Service: Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

Contact name: Carl Challinor

Contact email: [email protected]

Date completed: September 2020

Short summary of the initiative/project

This is part of our core Health Promotion service. It also promotes our services to staff.

How did you get started?  Any tips to share?

When there is a new Easy Read version of a national public health leaflet, e.g. annual flu immunisation, also check whether there are any other new/recent publications in Easy Read, e.g. screening leaflets. Publishers do not always notify you when this happens.

In Bradford, the services using these resources are multidisciplinary, so we alert them to any and all new learning disabilities-related health resources. Also, for quick reference, email notifications should state, “the Product No. on the back should be 12345678. If its not, it’s the older version, which you should discard.” I do this because the cover image/format might look the same on both versions.

Who did you work with?

Various, including our organisation’s Learning Disabilities Health Facilitation Teams and other LD-health support providers.  

What happened? 

By being proactive, we received additional requests for specific Easy Read resources. An example of how our health promotion service was thus promoted. 

What next?

Carry on building the network and looking for opportunities to raise awareness with staff in the organisation and working in partnership with the public library.

Our work with the champions has led to involvement with the system-wide Health Inequalities Group and we are developing “postcards” which define all the various terms associated with Health Inequalities, e.g. Anchor Institutions, Social Value, etc. It is planned they will be used with staff to break down some of the jargon associated with Health Inequalities.