A six-month pilot to promote digital inclusion for people with learning disabilities will start in early 2024. Project lead Tim Buck shares more details.

Why are we doing the pilot?

We want to offer opportunities for our service users to have more ownership over their health and wellbeing, enabling them to better access systems. As technology advances, services run the risk of leaving certain members of society behind if we do not test out different accessible methods for people to engage with services.

The pilot is centred around the called Medii app, can you tell us more about it?

The app is being developed to allow users with learning disabilities and their caregivers to monitor key physical and emotional parameters which are essential for medical teams to deliver accurate assessments.

How will the app benefit service users?

It will include items such as an improvement in the quality of key health assessments. We also want to enhance service user satisfaction and engagement with our services by providing digital solutions to complement services already in place.

How many services and service users are involved in the pilot?

ELFT have purchased 500 licences for the app pilot and will be rolled out in services located in City & Hackney and in Bedfordshire & Luton.

How will the pilot be monitored and measured for success? 

We have set up a Working Group of service users, professionals, providers and the app development team. The group will meet monthly and report back to the Digital Solutions Board for support.

We have identified specific outcome measures focussing on the functionalities of the app, quality of health improvements and service user & professionals feedback. To help us keep a track of all this data we are following Quality Improvement (QI) methodology.