Can you help with the reasonable adjustment digital flag?

The Reasonable Adjustment Digital Flag team at NHS England are looking for some people with lived experience to help create resources, in different formats, review and develop new case studies and be involvement with the National communications cascade.

What is the reasonable adjustment digital flag?

The reasonable adjustment digital flag is a new flagging system that will work across different services including GPs, hospitals, dentists, specialist nursing and social work.

It means staff will be able to see the reasonable adjustments people need as soon as they pull up a patient record. The flag had been designed to make sure more people are getting the reasonable adjustments they need quicker and without having to repeat them to each service each time they visit.

Why we want your support

The flag sits within the national learning disability and autism programme, but the flag is not just for this group. It is for anyone who meets the equality act 2010 definition of having a disability (Check if you're disabled under the Equality Act - Citizens Advice).

We have reached out to others who may use the flag to create a group who have been supporting with creating resources, sharing information about the flag and our communications plan.

We need more representation from people, particularly with the following different experiences

• Cancer

• Dementia

• Physical disabilities

• Neurological disorders including Cerebral palsy

• Profound and multiple learning disability

• Children and young people with a disability

• Long stay hospitals

• Hearing impairment

• Ethnicity

If you are someone who has lived experience of one or more of these and can represent the views of others with that experience please do get in contact via england.radfproject@nhs.net by the 15^th of September.

Our next meeting will be on Friday 12^th September at 2pm – 4pm, on Microsoft Teams.

We will be discussing:

• Plain English guide

• Understanding your experiences and collecting stories of reasonable adjustments (Case studies)

• Asking your views on how we are starting to share information about the Digital Flag.

If you are unable to attend this workshop or future ones you can still be involved you can email us or comment on resources via email england.radfproject@nhs.net if you would rather but joining the workshops may bring up other helpful conversations.

How much time are we asking for and how to get involved?

We know everyone is busy at the moment and are asking that you are only as involved as you are able to be.  If you are interested in supporting with this work, which will be paid at our normal rate of £75 for half a day’s work and £150 for a full day. If you are interested or would like more information, then Please email: england.radfproject@nhs.net.  Currently the group has been meeting about three times a year, we know there will be at least two more groups but it may also continue longer.

The Reasonable Adjustments Digital Flag team