The UK health and learning disability network is a network open to anyone with an interest in health and learning disability issues. Members come from all walks of life and backgrounds from families, self advocates and agencies working with people with a learning disability to nurses, GPs, psychologists, therapists etc. The network aims to help health practitioners in both mainstream and specialist services with the health and learning disability agenda. It concentrates on problem solving, information sharing and networking.Find out how to join it from http://www.learningdisabilities.org.uk/idhn It is run by Janet Cobb whose email is janet@jan-net.co.uk
The Muslim Health Network launched a health inequalities campaign in January 2004. You can find out more from their website at www.muslimhealthnetwork.org.
FPLD have launched a new Primary Care Service Framework for the Management of Health for People with Learning Disabilities. It is launched with practical resources to help GPs deliver annual health checks for people with learning disabilities with support. These have been developed jointly by Primary Care Unlimited, the Valuing People Support Team and the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities To access this and other frameworks, go to www.pcc.nhs.uk/204.php
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Annual Health Checks Presentation Provided at a recent conference on the NHS and learning disabilities.
Once a Day One or more people with learning disabilities are likely to be in contact with your primary healthcare team How can you help them?
Valuing Health for All was a project run by the Institute for Applied Health and Social Policy to find out how Primary Care Trusts could get better at including people with learning disabilities. Here is the summary of their report.
GPs using the same codes to find people with learning disabilities 'Read Codes' are codes that Family Doctors can use to check that they are giving everyone the service they need. The codes identify people with different health problems and conditions. At the moment there are different codes that people use to identify people with a learning disability. We think they should all use the same one - E3. If everyone used the same one
it would be easier to:
check that everyone with a learning disability is registered with a GP
and to check that people with learning disabilities are getting proper access to all health services, like screening, or heart disease programmes.
So we would be able to check whether health services are getting better at reaching people with learning disabilities. Here is more information (note updated January 2004):
We help to improve services and achieve better outcomes for children and families, adults and older people including those with mental health problems, physical or learning disabilities or people in the criminal justice system. We work with and are funded by
