Better health for people with learning disabilities

Authors:
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TEAM FOR INCLUSION, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DISABILITY GROUP
Publisher:
National Development Team for Inclusion
Publication year:
2017
Pagination:
20
Place of publication:
Bristol

This guide provides information for social care providers and support workers on how they can help improve the health of the people with learning disabilities they support. Specifically, it looks at the covers the role they can play to ensure that people with learning disabilities are on the GP learning disability Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) register, get annual health checks and have additional information on their Summary Care Record that says what reasonable adjustments they need. The guide has been commissioned by NHS England has been developed by NDTI with the support of the VODG. (Original abstract)

Subject terms:
learning disabilities, health, registers, health needs, general practitioners, support workers, care providers, health inequalities;
Content type:
practice guidance
Location(s):
England
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