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.
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.
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 Questionnaire - North East Essex Only
🩺We have spoken to so many families about the Annual Health Check over the past few years, and the experiences we hear about can vary greatly!
The Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board SNEE ICB, along with ourselves and other organisations have coproduced this questionnaire for people with a learning disability and/or their family carers to complete after their Annual Health Check.
We hope the learning from these questionnaires will inform training and practice to ensure all Annual Health Checks are good.
Essex Carers Network resource pages have information about what a GOOD Annual Health Check should look like
Easy Read Guides – Health – Essex Carers Network
You should be given the link to access the questionnaire by the GP practice when your loved one attends an Annual Health Check, but please do inform us if they do not (Please note, this questionnaire is currently only running in North East Essex, but we hope other ICBs across Essex will follow)
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.