Learning Disability Services
Frailty and Dementia Team
A city-wide team that supports people who have a Learning Disability with additional frailty and/or Dementia related health needs.
About our service
The Frailty and Dementia (FAD) Team is a city-wide team that supports people who have a Learning Disability with additional frailty and/or Dementia-related health needs.
Who is in the service?
The team is led by the FAD nurse specialist with support from the older adult community nurse, and input from Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry. All have a special interest and expertise in the diagnosis, management and support of frailty and dementia. The team has access to the wider multi-disciplinary resources in Learning Disabilities and the wider BCHC NHS Foundation Trust.
What is offered?
The individuals who access the service may require screening and diagnosis, support for their increasing frailty and dementia and support for end of life care. The team supports individuals, carers and family to prevent placement breakdown when needs cannot be met and to reduce the risk of a preventable admission to hospital and to support prompt and timely discharges from hospital when needed.
Referral process
Eligibility criteria:
- Aged 19 years and over (or within 6 weeks of their 19th birthday).
- Diagnosed learning disability and needs specialist health support that cannot be met through mainstream services even with the use of reasonable adjustments.
- Registered with a Birmingham GP.
- Moving into the Birmingham area with a Birmingham residential postcode and an identified Birmingham GP, but are unable to register with the GP until they have moved into their property (for example, a service user discharged from hospital or a complex case moving into the area and going through the transfer or handover of care process). Confirmation will be required for service users eligible for s117 that the transferring Learning Disability Service have had a conversation with the local Integrated Care Board (ICB).
Referral must be from GP to Single Point of Access.
You can make a referral by calling the Learning Disability’s Single Point of Access:
- Phone: 0121 466 4980
- Email: BCHNT.ldreferrals@nhs.net.
This will require completion of a referral form that needs to be sent through.
To make an informal enquiry please contact the FAD Nurse Specialist or Clinical Psychologist specialising in FAD on 0121 466 3900.