1) Good practices of effective policies on people with intellectual disabilities inclusion in Health Care services.
2) Lower barriers for people with intellectual disabilities to access Health Care services.
3) More effective training of Health Care Staff to interact with people with intellectual disabilities.
4) Stronger and better collaboration between Health Care Staff and other professional supporters.
5) The impact evaluation and the transferability of the good practices illustrated in the questionnaire.
In the framework of the Equal Treatment project, a “good practice” is a successful process or methodology that has been proven to work well and with good results, which can be replicable also in other settings.
A Google form was circulated among partners, EPR members and the wider network of organisations representing people with disabilities, in compliance with the rules on privacy data. The form was also circulated to 36 members of the European Hospital and Healthcare Federation (HOPE), a European non-profit organisation, that covers almost 80% of hospital care and is also active in the healthcare and social fields. In parallel to the collection of good practices through the form, EPR also carried out a desk research to identify particularly interesting cases to support the collection.
A number of 13 responses were collected and analysed by the EPR Secretariat.
EQUAL TREATMENT
Supporting rights and access of people with intellectual disabilities to secondary and tertiary healthcare services