Health - Annual Health Checks
Information regarding Annual Health Checks for people with a learning disability. An Annual Health Check should be available to anyone with a learning disability from the age of 14 who is on their GP learning disability register. It is different to a Physical Health Check that may be done by a specialist hospital and should be offered by your GP surgery.
Sadly we know from the LeDer reviews (Learning from the Lives and Deaths of people with a learning disability and autistic people) that people with a learning disability and autistic people tend to die earlier than their peers without a disability. They also do not receive the same quality of care during their lives from services. The Annual Health Check was introduced to try to combat this inequality.
Annual Health Check Questionnaire
We are pleased that more and more people are informed about their Annual Health Check. We are now focussing on letting families know that the Health Action Plan should always be given after the health check and should support the person to understand their health needs for the coming year.
We coproduced a Health Check Questionnaire with other organisations and colleagues from Suffolk and North East Essex ICB. The questionnaire is currently only for people in North East Essex but the other ICBs are looking to make their own now too.
There are two questionnaires available, one for the person to complete and one for the carer, family, supporter to complete.
Please take some time to complete the questionnaire as it will help to improve services and equity for people with learning disability and or autism.
Supporting someone with their Annual Health Checks at the GP surgery
The NHS and Ace Anglia have coproduced this crib sheet to help people who support someone to attend their Annual Health Check at a GP surgery.
What are Reasonable Adjustments?
We have produced a factsheet to explain what reasonable adjustments are and share information about the digital flag that will hold the information for health and care services.
Gold Standard Annual Health Check
What does a good annual health check look like.
View this easy read guide to see.
Should you need to you can refer to the guide when talking to your GP to ensure you have a good expereince.
NHS video about the Annual Health Check
Harishi and her mum attend Harishi’s Annual Health Check and talk through what happens. A video produced by NHS England.
Annual Health Check
This poster produced by Ace Anglia and NHS reminds people in an easy-read format to register at their GP and request an Annual Health Check.
The link takes you to more information from Suffolk and North East Essex ICB
NHS - learning disability
The NHS has a page on their website with information about learning disability. There are also links to many other pages from this.
NHS - LeDer
LeDer Learning from the Live and Deaths of people with a learning disability and autistic people.
LeDeR reviews deaths to see where we can find areas of learning, opportunities to improve, and examples of excellent practice. This information is then used to improve services for people living with a learning disability and autistic people.
STOMP - Stopping the over medication of people with a learning disability, autism or both
STOMP is a project in England to stop
the over use of psychotropic medicines.
Learning Disability - Annual Health Check Questionnaire
We shared previously that we had worked with Suffolk and North East Essex NHS to produce an Annual Health Check Questionnaire. We can now share the links with you so that you can support the person you care for to complete the survey about their most recent annual health check. This will help towards making sure these vital check-ups are consistent and useful in reducing the health inequalities that currently exist for people with a learning disability.
LD: Learning Disability Annual Health Check | Lets Talk SNEE
There is also a video that explains why the Health Check is important.
Videos – click on a picture to watch | LD: Learning Disability Annual Health Check | Lets Talk SNEE
This questionnaire is currently only for people living in North East Essex only, however we understand that some other ICBs in Essex are looking to produce this type of questionnaire too. We will share when these become available.