Health
Information regarding Health for people with a learning disability. This includes hospital care, primary care, local specialist care and more.
Essex Carers Network have produced a factsheet about Reasonable Adjustments and the Digital Flag that health practitioners are using to record those adjustments for people. Reasonable adjustments are the changes that can support people with disabilities to access services better.
/2025/05/ECN-Reasonable-adjustments-factsheet-May25.pdf
The Confidential Inquiry into the deaths of people with learning disabilities, CIPOLD report of 2013 showed extensive inequalities in healthcare for people with a learning disability. It agreed with other reports that people with a learning disability were dying much sooner than thir peers and from preventable causes.
CIPOLD Report in full: fullfinalreport.pdf (bristol.ac.uk)
LeDeR (Learning from Lives and Deaths – People with a Learning Disability and Autistic people) is a programme of work established in 2017. It reviews the lives and deaths of people with a learning disability and autistic people and looks for learning, improvement opportunities, areas of inequality and areas of good practice. Funded by the NHS it looks to improve the lives and healthcare of people with a learning disability and autistic people. LeDeR – Home
Essex Carers Network are active in the LeDeR programme supporting to consider the findings from those reviews, make recommendations, ask questions and note good practice.
Constipation in people with a learning disability
Constipation in people with a learning disability
Ageing Well with a Learning Disability - Toolkit for Family Carers
Ageing Well with a Learning Disability - Toolkit for Family Carers
Mid and West Essex Learning Disability Service
Mid and West Essex Learning Disability Service
Essex Learning Disability Partnership Way In (referral service)
Essex Learning Disability Partnership Way In (referral service)
for information from the South Essex Learning Disability Service
for information from the South Essex Learning Disability Service
STOMP(Stopping over medication of people with a learning disability, autism or both)
STOMP(Stopping over medication of people with a learning disability, autism or both)
STOMP - Stopping the over medication of people with a learning disability, autism or both
STOMP - Stopping the over medication of people with a learning disability, autism or both
Constipation - advice for people with a learning disability
Constipation - advice for people with a learning disability
Vaccination for Pneumonia-Meningitis-Sepsis -An Easy Read Guide
Vaccination for Pneumonia-Meningitis-Sepsis -An Easy Read Guide
Sports For Confidence Cervical Screening Information Booklet
Sports For Confidence Cervical Screening Information Booklet
ECN - Reasonable Adjustments Digital Flag Factsheet
ECN - Reasonable Adjustments Digital Flag Factsheet
Integrated Care Systems
Integrated Care Systems
- SNEE Suffolk & North East Essex ICB
- MSE Mid & South Essex ICB
- HWE Hertfordshire & West Essex ICB
Health - Funding - For people eligible for continuing health care
Health - Funding - For people eligible for continuing health care