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Specialist health The Learning Disabilities Health Facilitation Team support people with Learning Disabilities to access healthcare in the community and hospital setting. Contact details: Phone: 01403 620438 Email : SC-TR.LDHF-Horsham@nhs.net Your home Social Workers can help you think about wher...

Some of the challenges and areas for improvement highlighted in 2021-22 (see above) remain relevant for 2022-23. Additional areas for improvement are set out below. Hospital discharge – further work on the process Our work on hospital discharge processes aims to prevent people remaining in hospit...

Websites you may be interested in West Sussex Wellbeing The Silver Line NHS - Falls Prevention page NHS Live Well - Eat Well The disabled living foundation Improving your health and wellbeing will help you to enjoy other areas of your life. Wellbeing is a friendly and impartial service that...

Websites you may be interested in GOV.UK NHS Social care and support guide Workability Independent lives A physical disability is the long-term loss or impairment of part of your body’s physical function. Around 24% of the UK's population have a physical disability (statistics taken from Hous...

Did you know that 73% of people who access reablement services are able to live independently afterwards without formal support? Our ambition is to enable as many people as possible who would benefit from reablement to access the service, at the earliest possible opportunity. That’s why we’re exp...

Policy - Strategies - Frameworks Documents Charging Policy The County Council's charging policy for the financial year sets out the requirements and arrangements for charging for social care services, whether in the community or in a residential or nursing home. The legal authority to charge is ...

This information is about disability-related expenses. These are the extra costs you may have as a result of your disability or medical condition. Average annual household fuel costs are published by the UK Office for National Statistics. These are used to calculate the appropriate allowance, in t...

If you require an Adults' Services publication or document translated into another language or an alternative format, please check the list of translated publications and alternative formats to see if this already exists and email publications@westsussex.gov.uk to request a copy. If you cannot fi...

Autism is a lifelong developmental (or neurodevelopmental) condition, sometimes referred to as Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC). Autism impacts on the way an individual experiences and interacts with the world. Autism, including Asperger's Syndrome , is much more common than most people think with...

End of life care helps people who are nearing the end of their life to live well and to die in the most comfortable and dignified way possible. It also supports their family and carers in coping with the death of a loved one. End of life care can be available in a hospice, at home, in a hospital o...