Own Your Health - Peer Educators Driving Change for People with Learning Disabilities in Suffolk

To improve the health, wellbeing, and inclusion of people with learning disabilities and autistic people through increasing the awareness of the learning disability annual health checks, accessible information, peer-led education, and co-produced resources.

Increase Awareness of Learning Disability Annual Health Checks and Health Action Plans

• Target individuals aged 14+ with Learning Disabilities, their families, carers, and support workers.
• Promote registration on the Learning Disability register.
• Share accessible resources and lived experiences.
• Highlight key health topics: healthy eating, exercise, personal hygiene, vaccinations, cancer screening.

Raise Awareness of health services

• Use peer feedback to improve services.
• Promote consistent use of easy-read materials.

Empower Individuals

• Encourage self-responsibility in health.
• Educate on healthy lifestyles and wellbeing.

Promote Prevention and Accessibility

• Deliver peer-led education across Ipswich & East Suffolk (IES) and West Suffolk (WS).
• Engage minority and underrepresented groups.

Co-produce Health Films

• Create 5 films annually based on lived experience.
• Topics will be informed by LeDeR learning, My Health Focus Groups, Building Better Care Together learning events

Deliver four My Health Focus Groups per year

Working in partnership with the ICB, the Provider will deliver four My Health Focus Groups annually. The Provider will be responsible for:

• Coordinating and arranging all meetings, including venue/online setup and logistics
• Developing accessible meeting papers and materials
• Engaging with people in our communities, including families and carers, to support attendance and participation
• Providing photography during the sessions (where consent is obtained)
• Producing clear meeting notes and action logs
• Sharing outputs, insights, and actions with the wider Suffolk system

Support ICB Health Meetings

• The Provider will coordinate and ensure the attendance of an appropriate member of staff at key ICB health meetings. The appointed representative will actively contribute to discussions and work in co-production with system partners to help reduce health inequalities.

NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board are awarding the contract named within this notice under the Direct Award C process which is outlined within the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. The provider named in this notice is an existing provider and has been reviewed through a Key Criteria assessment to ensure the awarding body is satisfied with current performance and reasonably expects the provider to be able to satisfy the contract which is the subject of this notice. The contract which is the subject of this notice has not changed considerably when compared with the existing / previous contract delivered by the named provider.

The ICB may wish to introduce additional services during the lifetime of the contract ("Contract modifications"). Such contract modifications will be contemplated where additional requirements are similar and or complementary to the services already included in the Specification, at any given time. Such expansion would be by the addition of services commissioned by the Authority as named in the Contract Notice. To this end, after the award of contract, there is a possibility that the contract may be varied as allowable in accordance with the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.