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LYPFT Health Facilitation and Involvement Team

@lypftinvolve.bsky.social

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We are the Involvement Team in the Learning Disability Service at Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. https://www.learningdisabilityservice-leeds.nhs.uk/ Account monitored Monday- Friday 9:00am - 4:30pm

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LYPFT Health Facilitation and Involvement Team @lypftinvolve.bsky.social · 1d

World Menopause Day! Our website has an easy read menopause booklet to support people understand the changes they might experience and a checklist to check symptoms: learningdisabilityservice-leeds.nhs.uk/get-checked-...

#WorldMenopauseDay #Menopause #WomensHealth #Midlife #LifestyleMedicine

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The Advonet Group @advonetuk.bsky.social · 1d

Our Asking You! team seek #volunteer Citizen Advocates to help a person with #LearningDisabilities to be heard and get their rights upheld.

The role includes free training and can make a real difference. If you'd like to be a Citizen Advocate, email [email protected] #AdvocacyWorks #AAW25

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Volunteer Citizen Advocates

Support a person with learning disabilities to be heard and attain their rights

Join Advonet and help make a real difference in someone's life. As a Citizen Advocate, you will stand alongside an individual, helping them to speak up, be included and access their rights.

No experience needed
Full training and ongoing support provided
Just few hours a month can make a real difference

For more information

0113 244 0606

askingyou@advonet.org.uk

askingyou.org.uk/citizen-advocacy

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LYPFT Health Facilitation and Involvement Team @lypftinvolve.bsky.social · 4d

In Leeds, got a learning disability and enjoy books?
Why not try out this book club running at The Compton Centre on the second Monday of the month #LearningDisabilities #Leeds #Books #EmpoweringPeopleThroughPictures

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LYPFT Health Facilitation and Involvement Team @lypftinvolve.bsky.social · 9d

It's World Mental Health Day! This year's theme is access to services - mental health in catastrophes and emergencies. It is important people look after their mental health whatever they're going through. Everyone deserves good mental health. #WMHD25 #WorldMentalHealthDay #RightTreatmentRightTime

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Healthwatch Leeds @healthwatchleeds.bsky.social · 11d

22% of people who contacted us during April to June were about GPs & Primary Care. These included:
• Difficulty getting appointments/long waits
• Problems with PATCHS & online systems
• People feeling unsupported & staff attitudes
• Mental health support

#HealthwatchLeeds #GPAccess #PrimaryCare

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LYPFT Health Facilitation and Involvement Team @lypftinvolve.bsky.social · 12d

This afternoon, Julie is at a Leeds University training session for clinical psychology students. Julie will be talking about making healthcare better for people with a learning disability - sharing information and lived experience video stories of our co-workers #ImprovingHealth #HealthInequalities

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LYPFT Health Facilitation and Involvement Team @lypftinvolve.bsky.social · 13d

October is Down Syndrome Awareness Month.
Today we want to challenge the myth that people with Down Syndrome cannot achieve normal life goals and celebrate all the things our co-worker Lisa does in our team #PositiveAboutDownSyndrome #DownSyndromeAwarenessMonth #DSUK

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The Advonet Group @advonetuk.bsky.social · 13d

We have a free online guide about raising a health complaint! This #SelfAdvocacy tool can help you to know about your rights, how to start a complaint and includes useful templates for letters to get the complaint moving.

To see it, please visit advonet.org.uk/resources/he...

The Advonet Group

Guide to Raising a Health Complaint

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LYPFT Health Facilitation and Involvement Team @lypftinvolve.bsky.social · 17d

October is breast cancer awareness month. Our website has resources and links to support people know their bodies and explain the screening process and what cancer is: www.learningdisabilityservice-leeds.nhs.uk/get-checked-...
#BreastCancerAwarenessMonth #EveryStoryIsUniqueEveryJourneyMatters

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LYPFT Health Facilitation and Involvement Team @lypftinvolve.bsky.social · 17d

Exciting news! From today the Involvement Team and Health Facilitation Team have officially become one after working together over the last year. You will see some changes but by joining, our involvement and health work for people with learning disabilities will be more amazing.

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LYPFT Health Facilitation and Involvement Team @lypftinvolve.bsky.social · 19d

Lisa is Health and Wellbeing Champion for our team. Lisa works with us on a Monday so updated the display boards today with health information we want to share for October #InternationalInfectionPreventionWeek #FluVaccination #WorldMenopauseDay #WorldMentalHealthDay #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth

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LYPFT Health Facilitation and Involvement Team @lypftinvolve.bsky.social · 20d

World Heart Day! Our website has lots of information to help make accessible information to help people look after their hearts, including an #easyread leaflet from The British Heart Foundation:
www.learningdisabilityservice-leeds.nhs.uk/get-checked-...
#WorldHeartDay #DontMissABeat #HealthyHeart

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LYPFT Health Facilitation and Involvement Team @lypftinvolve.bsky.social · 24d

Hello! We have decided to join the Bluesky community 😀 #LearningDisabilities #Involvement #Coproduction #Leeds #HealthFacilitation

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