Learning disabilities
We hope that our whole website is clear and understandable. This page gives you the important information you need when you come to hospital.
COVID-19: Click here to access the COVID-19 Learning
Disability Hospital Summary
This page contains information that you might find useful if you
are coming in to hospital. There are four videos for you to watch -
one about coming to outpatients, one about coming to A&E, one
about giving your consent and one about what happens when you go
into hospital.
You can click
here to open a blank copy of a hospital passport which you can
download and fill in.
You can click here to open a
blank copy of a health action plan which you can download and
fill in.
You can click here to read our patient charter.
This is what we will do to support people with learning
disabilities at our hospital.
Sepsis
Here are some important information about sepsis. Click here to watch a video about sepsis.
Find out more about sepsis. You can watch this video or download our sepsis leaflet.
Here is our new video about what happens when you go
into hospital
Here is our video about giving your consent
Here is our video about coming to the A&E
department
Here is our video about your visit to hospital
|
We took part in The Big Health Day 2016 and hosted a hospital
uniform fashion show.
You can watch our hospital fashion show video here.
|
|
Please call
07795 018923 to talk to the Specialist Nurse for
Learning Disability at the hospital.
|
|
|
We are a large hospital
in Southend on Sea. Our address is:
Southend University
Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Prittlewell Chase
Westcliff on Sea
Essex
SS0 0RY
If you want to send us
an email, our email address is: Safeguarding.Adults@southend.nhs.uk
|
|
|
Click here for a map of our
hospital.
|
|
|
Our telephone number is
01702 435555.
When you call our
receptionists will answer the phone.
They will help you to
speak to the person or department you need.
|
|
|
We treat lots of
patients every year as inpatients and outpatients.
|
|
|
Inpatients stay on our
wards and we have over 800 beds for them.
|
|
|
Outpatients come and
see our doctors or nurses for a short appointment in clinics.
|
|
|
If you are coming to
our hospital as an outpatient you will have a letter from
us.
Click here for a leaflet which will help you
understand the letter.
|
|
The easyhealth website
has lots of health information that is easy to understand. Click here to visit the easyhealth
website.
|
|
|
There are lots of
people at the hospital who can help you.
|
|
|
We have an easy read
leaflet on some of the people who can help you at the
hospital. Click here to read
this leaflet.
|
|
|
If you are unhappy with
anything that happened during your visit to the hospital, we want
you to tell us.
We want to hear your
views.
Click here to read a leaflet that will tell you how
to make a complaint.
|
|
|
At our hospital we want
all of our patients to get the best care.
|
|
|
There are lots of
people in Southend who can help and support you. This is a
list of websites with information about them.
Southend Social
Services Click here to visit their website.
South Essex Partnership
Trust Click here
to visit their website.
Southend Mencap Click here to
visit their website.
|
The Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR)
programme
On Friday 1 September the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review
(LeDeR) Programme goes live across Essex. The LeDeR is a
national NHS-funded programme.
As part of the LeDeR, we want to improve the quality of health
and social care for people with learning disabilities.
We are doing this by supporting local reviews of deaths of
people with learning disabilities in Essex.
There is a LeDeR section you can find at http://castlepointandrochfordccg.nhs.uk/your-services/essex-transforming-care-partnership/leder-programme
The LeDeR website contains more information about the LeDeR in
Essex and how to contact the programme. Anyone can contact
them.