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The Improving Health and Lives Learning Disabilities Observatory is here to keep watch on
- the health of people with learning disabilities
- the health care they receive
We have a website that provides a lot of information.
We are doing a number of projects.
To find the different sorts of information we provide, look at the links at the top of the page.
If you have questions about the Observatory, you may find answers on our page of Frequently Asked Questions.
Improving Health and Lives has an advisory group of self-advocates and family carers from the Eastern Region. The group includes regional representatives who either sit on, or report to the National Forum and the National Valuing Families Forum. The group meets twice a year. For more information please see the terms of reference and the meeting notes
People's Parliament Picks
Members of the People's Parliament interview Improving Health and Lives Staff Gyles Glover and Eric Emerson about their work.
Reasonable Adjustments Database
Find out about the changes NHS groups are making to make it easier for people to use their services.
Latest News
Clinical guidelines contribute to the health inequalities experienced by individuals with learning disabilities
Clinical guidelines are likely to further widen the health inequities experienced by persons with intellectual disabilities, and other disadvantaged groups, by being preferentially advantageous to the general population.
GPs think people with learning disabilities receive poorer healthcare
Two-thirds of GPs think people with learning disabilities receive poorer healthcare than other patients, the results of a GMC survey suggest.
CIPOLD is the Confidential Inquiry into premature deaths of people with learning disabilities.
CIPOLD is funded by the Department of Health. We aim to improve the health and well-being of people with learning disabilities by carrying out an inquiry into their death.