Annual Health Check Resources & Guides
This range of resources have been developed to support the implementation of health checks for people with learning disabilities.
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Research: annual health checks for people with a learning disability
People with a learning disability often have poorer physical and mental health than people who don’t have a learning disability.
Health checks for people with learning disabilities
From 2008/09, the directed enhanced service (DES) offered health checks to people with learning disabilities aged 18 and over who were on the learning disability registers of participating practices. These practices were required to attend...
Improving the uptake of Annual Health Checks for people with learning disabilities
"People with learning disabilities have poorer health than their non-disabled peers, yet differences inhealth status are, to an extent, avoidable. The health inequalities faced by people with learning disabilities in the UK start early in...
Improving the uptake of Annual Health Checks for people with learning disabilities
National Organisations work together to help more people with a learning disability have an Annual Health Check.
Voluntary sector working with the NHS: My Life My Choice
Guest blog from My Life My choice on how they work with the NHS, now in its 70th year.
Quality Checking Health Checks for People with Learning Disabilities
Annual health checks for people with learning disabilities have been a key part of NHS plans to improve health and reduce premature mortality since 2008. Annual health checks are part of an Enhanced Service, designed...
Making a film with the Misfits Theatre Company – some reflections
I have recently had the pleasure of working with the Misfits Theatre Company to make a film for NHS England about what social care providers can do to improve the health of people with learning disabilities by making sure they are on the health check register and get their annual health check.
Better health for people with learning disabilities
This guidance document and an accompanying film has been commissioned by NHSE, and is designed to support social care providers who want to improve the health and therefore the lives of the people they support.
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