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- How many people have learning disabilities?
- How many people do family doctors know about who have learning disability?
- How many people with learning disability have a stable home? (NI 145)
- How many people with learning disability have paid jobs? (NI146)
- How many children have difficulty learning?
- How many people receive social care?
- How many people get different sorts of community based care?
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Alison Copeland
How many people did family doctors do special health checks for in 2010/11?
Nearly half of the adults with learning disabilities known to their GP and their social services department received a health check in 20010/11.
Since 2009 GP practices in England can provide health checks for adults with learning disabilities as part of a Directed Enhanced Service scheme. Originally agreed for two years (2008-9 and 2009-10), this scheme was extended for at least another year (2010-11). This page contains information on how many adults with learning disabilities have received a health check in 2010/11 for each PCT in England.
72,782 people with learning disabilities were reported to have received a health check in 20010/11. This number has increased by 24% from 2009/10 and by 118% from 2008/9.
49% of the people reported by PCTs to have learning disabilities were reported to have received a health check. An 8% point increase from 2009/10 and a 26% point increase from 2008/9.
Over one in three PCTs (35%) reported a reduction in the percentage uptake of health checks between 2009/10 and 2010/11. Twenty one PCTs (13%) reported a reduction of 11 percentage points or more.
In contrast, thirty three PCTs reported an increase of more than 20 percentage points in the percentage uptake of health checks between 2009/10 and 2010/11.
Full details are available in the report and spreadsheet below. You can also see an interactive map showing results for each PCT.
Full report
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Health Checks for People with Learning Disabilities 2010-11 Adobe PDF file - 1013 kb | Downloaded: 951 times Uploaded: 2011-07-26 16:03:36 Email to a friend |
Numbers for individual Primary Care Trust areas
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Learning Disability Health Checks 2008-9 to 2010-11 Data to Download Microsoft Excel 2007 file - 64 kb | Downloaded: 586 times Uploaded: 2011-07-26 16:06:10 Email to a friend |