Healthcare providers are invited to email support the STOMP healthcare pledge and for help with producing their own STOMP action plan and self assessment.
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NHS Futures platform – Dave Gerrard and Janet Atukunda.Future work for children and young people – Mary Busk.Reasonable adjustment flag – Nicola Easey.Multicultural STOMP resources – Dr Hassan Mahmood.National Autistic Society (NAS) resource – Niki Daniel.Alternatives to medication – Ruth and Jillian.Learning from lives and deaths of people with a learning disability (LeDeR) – Dr Emily Handley-Cole.Improving care in primary care – Nigget Saleem.Welcome and core message slides – Carl Shaw and Dr Roger Banks.The sessions were all recorded and you can listen to these by clicking on the links below. We also listened to presentations about improving care in primary and secondary care, LeDeR, children and young people, data, alternatives to medicine and the range of resources available to support health and social care professionals and people with a learning disability and/or autistic people and their families and carers. On 29 July we held our first STOMP STAMP webinar day where we heard personal stories from people with a learning disability and autistic people. Using the STOMP STAMP principals led to a reduction in medication and improved quality of life for one of their services users. This film describes a STOMP STAMP collaboration between a residential provider and the local trust in Sunderland. The printed medication information pack can be ordered from the CBF.
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What to do if you have concerns about your relative’s medication.What the alternatives are to medication.What you need to find out before your relative starts taking medication.One of the resources is a new online medication pathway for family carers. NHS England also commissioned the Challenging Behaviour Foundation to produce some new resources for families. We commissioned MiXit to do a new play about STOMP which is a great success everywhere it goes. We worked with MiXit theatre group, people with a learning disability and families and carers to write an easy read leaflet about the project. This is available in different languages, including Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Bengali, Polish, Romanian and Somali. Psychotropic medicines can cause problems if people take them for too long. Children and young people are also prescribed them. Public Health England says that every day about 30,000 to 35,000 adults with a learning disability are taking psychotropic medicines, when they do not have the health conditions the medicines are for. It is not safe to change the dose of these medicines or stop taking them without help from a doctor. Sometimes there are other ways of helping people so they need less medicine or none at all. These medicines are right for some people.
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People with a learning disability, autism or both are more likely to be given these medicines than other people. Sometimes they are also given to people because their behaviour is seen as challenging. Psychotropic medicines affect how the brain works and include medicines for psychosis, depression, anxiety, sleep problems and epilepsy. STOMP is about helping people to stay well and have a good quality of life. It is a national project involving many different organisations which are helping to stop the over use of these medicines. STOMP stands for stopping over medication of people with a learning disability, autism or both with psychotropic medicines. Stopping over medication of people with a learning disability, autism or both (STOMP)