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<p>There are several measures being put in place to train healthcare professionals
in understanding and supporting the needs of autistic people.</p><p>From 1 July 2022,
the Health and Care Act 2022 requires providers registered with the Care Quality Commission
to ensure their staff receive specific training on learning disability and autism
appropriate to their role. We are rolling out the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training
on Learning Disability and Autism to support this. This training will help to ensure
that staff have the right skills and knowledge to provide safe and compassionate care,
including how to provide reasonable adjustments, for autistic people. Over 1.4 million
people have completed the first part of Oliver’s Training, an e-learning package.</p><p>NHS
England has commissioned the Royal College of Psychiatrists to deliver the National
Autism Training Programme for Psychiatrists in response to the need and demand for
better autism training from within the profession. The training is co-produced and
co-delivered with autistic people and offers a short foundation training course for
psychiatrists working across a variety of settings, and a longer, more enhanced development
course, aimed at psychiatrists and higher trainees who are seeking to increase their
specialist knowledge and skills in autism. The provision of this training will help
reduce diagnostic overshadowing, play a significant role in preventing unnecessary
admissions to mental health hospitals for autistic people and improve autism appropriate
care. The ambition is that this may contribute to reducing the number of inappropriate
admissions, interventions such as seclusion and segregation along with the length
of stay for those who need hospital care.</p>
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