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mkuh.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads "Appendix 1: MOTHERS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES GUIDANCE TOOL
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Value family – Involve individuals who best know the woman with learning disabilities as they can provide additional information that may be helpful to the decision-making process.
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Avoid making assumptions – Do not assume that because someone has a diagnosis of a learning disability that they cannot be good enough parents
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Look for support – Professionals should not work in isolation and should involve learning disability services for further support and guidance.
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Understand emotions – Take into consideration that many mothers with learning disabilities have their own anxieties and worries about motherhood and fear of judgment. Do not assume they are being difficult.
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Establish reasonable adjustments – Professionals should put reasonable adjustments into place to ensure women with learning disabilities can comprehend and understand information to give informed consent. I.E. easy read, pictorials, large font, visual and hearing aids.

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Mental Capacity – Do not assume capacity. In liaison with the Mental Capacity Act 2005, professionals should consider completing a Mental Capacity Assessment (MCA) to establish whether the women can give informed consent. Professionals should also consider best interest, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) and involving an Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA).
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Efficient discharge – Professionals should consider possible support that can be put into place to ensure a person-centered discharge is consolidated. Consider, access to health and additional services, transport, financial support and accommodation.

THINK... VALUE ME"

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Omfg. Read section 3.4 "Learning Disabilities support" on page 5. Literally everyone will be helped by these suggestions, not just diagnosed disabled people.
mkuh.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads
"3.4 Learning Disabilities support
Although 7% of people with learning disabilities become parents ( Best Beginnings) the Equality Act 2010 obligates responsibility to service providers to ensure that reasonable adjustments are put into place to ensure the holistic needs of people with learning disabilities are met to the highest standards.
Remember to think VALUE ME! (Appendix 1)

1. Early intervention strategies should be considered. Ensure that the community midwife is involved and if they are under 20 consider discussion with the specialist teenage pregnancy midwife for additional support.
2. Professionals should ensure that adequate time is provided for consultations, appointments and formal discussions. Taking time to allow the woman to understand the information in
order to make an informed decision.
3. Professionals should ensure that reasonable adjustments are put into place to aid with understanding. Including: easy read, pictorials, large font, visual and hearing aids.
4. Abilities led practice rather than inabilities led practice. Professionals should avoid making assumptions based on a diagnosis of a learning disability as often mothers will have their own anxieties, fears and worries regarding motherhood.
5. Avoid assuming that mothers are being difficult. Consider other possible reasons such as the environment, loud noises, bright lights (especially if they have a dual diagnosis of learning disability and ASD), sensory needs, stress and anxiety. Provide a side room if possible."

Vor welchen Herausforderungen steht die #CharitéBerlin und das deutsche Gesundheitswesen im Allgemeinen? Welche Chancen bieten #KI in der Medizin und Kooperationen mit der Industrie? Über diese und andere Fragen sprach Prof. Kroemer mit dem Handelsblatt (€):

👉 handelsblatt.com/technik/mediz

Take care on smokey days. Repeated exposures, even in healthy people, can add up long term.
“Even brief exposures from smaller fires that last only a few days can lead to long-lasting health effects.“

#wildfires #health #medmastodon @medmastodon
news.harvard.edu/gazette/story

Harvard Gazette · Wildfire smoke can harm heart and lungs even after the fire has endedBy Maya Brownstein

Last year i started to have eye floaters or as they are sometimes called mouches volants. The best way i can describe it, they feel like small specks of dust that perturbe my field of vision. I wonder if this explains that? If my Long COVID is to blame, or maybe partially to blame? The ophthalmologist that i went to see did not think it is connected. As all normalizers sorry doctors always do.

At any rate, it's very a annoying.

sciencealert.com/covid-can-cau

ScienceAlert · COVID Can Cause Alzheimer's-Like Plaques in Eyes And BrainCOVID-19 could lead to a protein build-up similar to that seen in Alzheimer's patients – not just in the brain, but also in the eyes, according to a new study.

AI just autonomously removed gallbladders from pigs—impressive, but they were clean, ex vivo cases. No bleeding. No inflammation. No chaos. Until it can handle a middle-of-the-night cholecystitis, the surgeon stays essential.
#medmastodon #surgery #AI #robotics #cholecystectomy kambiz.kamrani.md/p/the-rise-o

The Informed Incision · The Rise of the AI Surgicalist: Autonomous Robot Removes Pig Gallbladders—What It Means for General SurgeonsBy Kambiz Kamrani

A public health success story.
Earlier this year (2025), the World Health Organization (#WHO) validated #Guinea as having eliminated the devastating sleeping sickness as a public health problem.
It's a story of public health having lost the trust of the public, largely due to not communicating well -- but after figuring out new ways of doing things, managed to earn trust back again.

#publichealth #IDmastodon #medmastodon #Africa #scicomm @medmastodon
medangel.org/bolet-mouna-intro

Angels in Medicine · Bölët Mouna: Inside Guinea’s Quest to Eliminate Sleeping Sickness (Introduction)Guinea has achieved a historic milestone by eliminating sleeping sickness as a public health problem, becoming the first country to conquer this deadly neglected tropical disease through innovative research, community trust, and international collaboration, with the support of DNDi.

Well, not the happiest intro but I’ll cut/paste this here while I still remember then add a proper intro spoons allowing..⬇️

Please #boost and share to other platforms spoons allowing.

Seems I’m desperate enough to go to the media for help. Yes, the trapped woman in the article below is me.

My story: thecanary.co/global/world-anal

More info on how to help:: buymeacoffee.com/halcionandon/
Beem: Halcionandon

I’ve tried every level of government and they simply won’t help.
- Please ask people if they have a spare room or somewhere to go. Maybe you have somewhere?
- Is anybody a #DisabilityAdvocate? #SocialWorker? Need help.

Please don’t give me contacts for domestic violence orgs. They don’t help disabled people with housing & only offer counselling. Also, that list of disability advocates going around for #Melbourne #Australia (where I am) is outdated - there aren’t any in my catchment. So I’m looking for volunteers with some background.

Thanks for reading

#PwME #LongCovid #MECFS #Hypothyroidism #ChronicIllness #Neisvoid #NacissisticAbuse ##Housing #Dysautonomia #SocialWork #MedMastodon #PWLC #MutualAid
#HumanRights #Press

@mecfs @chronicillness @neisvoid
@disability @disabilityjustice @socialwork @mutualaid
@chronicillness

Canary · Australia's state and services are trapping a woman living with severe ME/CFS in domestic abuseWoman living with severe ME/CFS in Australia trapped in a cycle of violence from domestic abusers to the punitive state & medical services.

Prof. Georg Osterhoff hat zum 1. Juli die Professur für Traumatologie der #CharitéBerlin übernommen und leitet zugleich die Klinik für Unfallchirurgie und Orthopädie am BG Klinikum Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin (ukb). Die zweite gemeinsame Berufung im Rahmen der Kooperation von Charité & ukb bringt Expertise und Zukunft in die Orthopädie und Unfallmedizin. 💪

👉 charite.de/service/pressemitte