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- Advocacy project
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- Annual health checks
- How many people receive health checks?
- How effective are health checks?
- More information
- Matt Hoghton Presentation
- Annual Report
- Gaps in what the NHS counts
- Local variations in how many people have learning disabilities
- How many NHS patients have learning disabilities?
- Health inequalities and people with learning disabilities
- How people with learning disabilities die
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- Monitoring local need
- What Learning Disability Registers can tell us
- Estimating age and gender-specific death rates
- Reasonable adjustments
- partnershipboardreports
- autsaf2011
This page was written by
Eric Emerson
Annual health checks
People with learning disabilities have poorer physical and mental health than other people. This is not inevitable. These are health inequalities that can, to a significant extent, be avoided.
One reason for the poorer health of people with learning disabilities is that they often have difficulty in recognising illness, communicating their needs and using primary health care services.
Primary health services have a legal responsibility to take account of the special needs of people with learning disabilities and reduce the health inequalities they face. One practical step GP practices in England can take to better support people with learning disabilities is to offer them annual health checks. Since 2009, GPs have received extra money for providing these health checks.
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We have produced a briefing for GP commissioning consortia and PCTs to help address the issues identified in these reports. We have written an easy read version of the briefing.
There is a presentation by Dr Matt Hoghton, about how to increase the quantity and quality of health checks. The presentation includes helpful tips about how to work with GPs.
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Health Checks for People with Learning Disabilities: Summary of Evidence Adobe PDF file - 524 kb | Downloaded: 555 times Uploaded: 2010-09-17 12:58:13 Email to a friend |
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Health Checks for People with Learning Disabilities: A Systematic Review of Evidence Adobe PDF file - 1.1 Mb | Downloaded: 502 times Uploaded: 2010-09-17 15:28:32 Email to a friend |
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Health Checks for People with Learning Disabilities: Implications and Actions for Commissioners Adobe PDF file - 714 kb | Downloaded: 704 times Uploaded: 2010-12-16 15:39:41 Email to a friend |
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Health Checks for People with learning disabilities - Easy Read Adobe PDF file - 584 kb | Downloaded: 488 times Uploaded: 2010-12-17 10:55:31 Email to a friend |
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