Learning Disability Improvement Standards (LDIS)
The Learning Disability Improvement Standards project is commissioned by NHS England and run by the NHS Benchmarking Network.
Objectives
The NHS England Learning Disability Improvement Standards project is a data collection that has been designed to understand the extent of organisational compliance with the published NHS England Learning Disability Improvement Standards and identify improvement opportunities.
The improvement standards reflect the strategic objectives and priorities described in national policies and programmes, in particular those arising from Transforming care for people with learning disabilities – next steps and the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR) programme.
Compliance with these standards requires organisations to assure themselves that they have the necessary structures, processes, workforce and skills to deliver the outcomes that people with learning disabilities, and their families and carers, expect and deserve. It also demonstrates a commitment to sustainable quality improvement in developing services and pathways for people with learning disabilities.
The standards review aims to collect data from a number of perspectives to understand the overall quality of care across Learning Disability services.
LDIS for NHS Trusts
All Acute, Community and Mental Health NHS Trusts can participate and submit data to the core project.
LDIS for Health & Justice
Collections have also been developed to gather data from health services provided in the justice sector.
Driving quality improvement in care
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"In our Trust, we are in the process of revising our LD policy to incorporate many of the insights gleaned from the benchmarking audit reports of previous years"
Participant in the 2023 LDIS project
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"The benchmarking programme alerted us to how significantly our readmission rate differed from other comparable trusts. We have now reduced this."
Participant in the 2023 LDIS project
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"We have spent lots of time promoting our services and resources, this has led to teams contacting the LD lead wanting to learn more."
Participant in the 2023 LDIS project
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"The data from LDIS allows us to benchmark ourselves against the average, and as such helps us focus on standards that require improvements."
Participant in the 2023 LDIS project
