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Matt: Hi I'm Matt. I'm a champion and the project is called Getting it Right - from
the Start.
Stuart: I've been involved with trying to get a better service for people with a learning
disability when it comes to going to the doctors.
Matt: We talk to G.P staff, nurses, receptionists.... We help give them training and understanding
really.
Sheila: it was interesting and they were very friendly.
Ian: I've been doing a lot of work with reasonable adjustments.
Catherine: I've asked them to do easy read information, I've asked them to have someone
who does Makaton or British sign language.
Lark: when you go to the doctors with your mum, what is the thing you like doctors to
do for you?
Clare: Listen to us, listen to what you want to say to them.
Lesley: we had to do a presentation to people -- it was the hottest day of the year!
Kathleen: A bit nervous -- not much! Yeah -- just getting to know people -- you know
-- and sitting there and talking to them ...its hard.
Mark: My confidence has been boosted from being absolutely terrified -- what really
boosted my confidence was I did two presentations and they were both perfect!
John: Once you've done it over and over again it's what you'd really call a piece of cake.
Stuart: It's important to have a mentor so the person with a learning disability can
get support, extra support, and be involved.
Kerry: She actually understood me, Barbara has sort of encouraged me.
Catherine: If we didn't have Jess or Helen or the any of the other mentors we wouldn't
have been able to do this on our own because it would have been too nerve racking for us.
Brian: you get that chance to have that one-to-one time with people and support each other, it's
not all one way either, I've learn a lot from my champion. It's been amazing for me to watch
her blossom.
Sarah: we help each other, we get to help each other out.
Bern: the relationship I have with my champion Stuart is absolutely wonderful.
Sarah: I wouldn't do it by myself.
Andrew: its been quite a nice sort of journey with the guys because they've found skills
they didn't realise they had, really started to think about where they fit into the scheme
of things and why they do deserve to be treated like everybody else in surgeries.
Gary: At first I weren't that confident but now I've sort of done the project it sort
if brought me out more.
Dr Guy Bradley-Smith: I've seen people grow in confidence, communication, in deciding
to put themselves into a discussion where previously they'd have stood back.
Kathleen: Confidence is good, yeah. I'm speaking for myself.
Steve: the surgery we went to were very receptive and open minded to the idea that they could
make a few changes and improve people with a learning disability's experiences of being
at the surgery.
Rachel: working with doctors is very important.
Dr Guy Bradley-Smith: We have lots of staff over three health centre sites and I think
what it's done for them is make them more confident and it's been about getting people
to think differently. It's made them recognize more of the learning disabled population and
it's given them some tools to work with them, particularly the welcome.
Dave: it really has opened my eyes that people with wheelchairs and people with special needs
and people with all sorts of abilities to have little bit of changes which will make
a brighter difference for the future.
Dr Jill Rasmussen: we as the coordinators of people's health and social care need to
make sure they have the right access and we can't do that unless we actually speak with
them about their needs and identify their particular needs.
Glen: there has been some break through in the project. Positive feedback form the doctors
surgeries has been showing that what we've been doing has changed the views on how doctors
and practice managers have originally thought on people with learning disabilities.
Sedley: A lot of disabled don't get chances to do big projects like this.
Robert: well funnily enough I've never done a project like this before I done this one
with Jo and I enjoyed it very much.
Lesley: I feel proud, I feel proud for doing this for people like us.
Kerry: I've learnt a lot, I've learnt to speak out a bit.
Rachel: Rather good and I liked it.
Dr Guy Bradley-Smith: I've seen the empowering of a generation of learning disabled champs.
Sedley: I think it is a brilliant project -- this project is.