National resources
The Royal College of General Practitioners – Health Checks for People with Learning Disabilities Toolkit contains a wealth of information to support GP’s with annual health checks.
The NHS Annual Health Checks – Learning Disabilities page provides background information in the rationale for Learning Disabilities Annual Health Checks.
Improving identification of people with a learning disability: guidance for general practice for guidance on appropriate use of SNOMED codes.
For patients that cannot attend for their annual health checks there is an EMIS Annual Health Checks Template for Home Visits
Mencap’s resources about Annual Health Checks includes a video and several easy read documents that can be useful to patients with a learning disability.
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board have made a training video to help health staff, including receptionists support people with learning disabilities
The NHS have produced this infographic Population Screening Timeline people may find helpful
The NHS Going to Hospital Page includes useful information, such as easy read guides to Reasonable Adjustments, accessing records and consent.
Patients may benefit from a Hospital passport (PDF, 1.22 KB). This is a patient held record, people can complete with their Circle of Support. Enfield have produced a ‘Top Tips’ document (PDF, 1.22 KB) to help people get the most benefit from their hospital passport.
Resources produced by the Enfield Integrated Learning Disability Service
The Enfield Integrated Learning Disability Service maintains an accessible My Health web page. Things you might find particularly useful include:
- A poster about annual health checks
- A Pre-Health Check Questionnaire
- A guide to making Reasonable Adjustments (PDF, 1.22 KB)
Further reading
- The Learning from Lives and Deaths (LeDeR) programme
- The NDTi’s guide to Better health for people with learning disabilities
- Mencap’s Death by Indifference report
- The Mazars Report (Southern Health Care)