Attendees included GPs, secondary care providers, commissioners and patient groups. Speakers at the conference included: Baroness Angela Browning – whose own son suffers from Autism Lyn Watkins – an autism patient who has 2 adult sons who were diagnosed with autism whilst they were children, Pauline Heslop - Reader in Intellectual Disabilities Research and Director of Doctoral Research Degrees at University of Bristol Doctor Peter Carpenter – Psychiatrist
The speakers successfully emphasised the following key Issues as barriers to driving forward improvements:
Low priority for commissioners
Lack of staff taking awareness training
Lack of support/advice for GP’s
The ‘system’ is not joined up
Lack of support for carers
Delegates then used some Quality Improvement science and tools to undertake Root cause analysis of the issues in order to develop and prioritise potential solutions.
These outputs are being considered alongside the outputs from similar events being planned in other UK locations so a comprehensive action plan can be developed.
For more information contact Dave Evans – [email protected]