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Health inequalities and people with learning disabilities in the UK: 2011: implications and actions for commissioners
- Authors:
- TURNER Sue, ROBINSON Carol
- Publisher:
- Improving Health and Lives: Learning Disabilities Observatory
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- Stockton-on-Tees
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
People with learning disabilities face serious health inequalities, partly arising from difficulties they encounter in using health services. Health services have a duty to make the adjustments necessary to give them equal access. This document provides guidance for those people with responsibility for commissioning services about ways to increase access to, and improve healthcare. The guidance will also be of interest to family carers and professionals interested in the welfare of people with learning disabilities. Effective commissioning to address these inequalities will involve a number of key actions including: Ensuring that the health inequalities faced by people with learning disabilities are carefully documented in the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA); Taking action to commission with all relevant partner agencies, services which address the determinants of health inequalities; Improving the number and quality of annual health checks; and Improving the number and quality of annual health checks.