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.