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.

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.

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.