Disability Pride Month Training and Resources
Members of our South West London Accessible Information Standard Community of Practice, a group that includes people with lived experience, GP practice and Integrated Care Board staff, and Disability charities, contributed to this list.
Find learnings from Healthwatch’s engagement with people living with disability, their carers, and health and care staff.
This page will be regularly updated. To suggest resources to add to this list, please contact Alyssa Chase-Vilchez, South West London Executive Officer, at alyssa@swlhealthwatch.org.uk.
Trainings and informational resources
• MertonVision provides vision impairment awareness training. Contact: Kevin Gregory, CEO, at kevin.gregory@mertonvision.org.uk
• Kingston Association for the Blind also offer vision impairment awareness training. Contact: Odette Battarel, CEO, at ceo@kingstonassociationforblind.org
• Generate, a Wandsworth-based charity, offers GP site visits to discuss how practices can improve accessibility for people with learning disabilities. Contact Chileshe Kaluba, EasyHealth Project Manager: Chileshe.Kaluba@generate-uk.org
• Royal Association for Deaf People provides Deaf awareness training. Access the training.
• NHS England has free, online Accessible Information Standard training. Access the training.
• NHS England has also created a Health Literacy Toolkit for staff to create accessible materials for their patients. Find the Health Literacy Toolkit.
Easy Read materials and other communication guides
• Generate has a comprehensive free library of Easy Read materials that provide information about people’s health. They can also create bespoke materials. Access the free library.
• Transformation Partners in Health creates bespoke Easy Read materials. Learn more about their Easy Read materials.
• Redbridge Council Public Health Delivery Team and Transformation Partners in Health and Care have created a health communication guide that can be used with people that struggle with written or spoken English (which might include some learning Disabled people, foreign language speakers, and BSL users). Find the health communication guide.
Posters for service providers to display in health services:
• Healthwatch have created a flyer to display people’s rights under the Accessible Information Standard. Access the flyer.
• SignHealth provides information about meeting the health needs of Deaf and hard of hearing people, including posters to print. Access the posters.
Materials to distribute to patients:
• The NHS has created an easy read guide to help patients access GP online services. Access the easy read guides.
• Viaduct Care CIC and Stockport East & South Primary Care Network have created a visual guide to help people use the NHS App. Access the guide.
