Clair Haydon
Consultant Occupational Therapist
The Challenge
Autistic people can present to any mental or physical health service with a co-occurring condition. Often teams don’t feel confident in knowing what reasonable adjustments may be helpful in supporting a person to access or engage in an intervention.
The Change
Anyone diagnosed with autism by our service, now has co produced, person centred, practical reasonable adjustments added as an alert on the electronic health record which includes preferences for communication, interaction and sensory information.
The Impact
Mental health teams report feeling more confident to be autism informed in their interactions and interventions for that person, and feel that this is helpful in providing better patient experience and improved care and outcomes.
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