NHS England South West Autism Programme Workshop

The NHS England South West Learning Disability and Autism Programme are running a workshop to address the following:

• The NHS England National Autism Team published the national framework and operational guidance for autism assessment services in April 2023. This is aimed at helping Integrated Care Boards deliver improved outcomes in all-age autism assessment pathways
• The National Autism Team has agreed to attend regionally organised events for services that conduct autism assessments in each of the seven NHS England regions to provide further support to assist systems and services to implement the guidance
• The team will share completed and ongoing work related to the autism assessment (and wider neurodevelopmental) pathway for all ages, including the results of a commissioned project. They will also facilitate discussions around this topic and other important issues that the regions have identified
• Each region will be at a different stage in addressing their autism (and wider neurodevelopmental) pathways and events will serve to share NHS updates and system-level tested innovation and solutions to consider across respective regions
• The colleagues from the national team attending will be Dr Janine Robinson (National Specialty Adviser) and Dr Lou Thomas (Autism Research Manager)

This workshop is open to the following people across the South West:

• Regional leads
• Commissioners
• Clinical leads from services offering autism assessments and services that feed into their work
• Other referrers including GPs
• Education professionals
• Lived experience representatives supporting working groups in autism and neurodevelopmental pathways

An invite will be sent to you shortly after signing up.

Questions about this event?

Name: Angela Metcalf

Email: england.learningdisabilityandautism-sw@nhs.net

Telephone: 07730 391 768