Guidance for Professionals
This guidance is designed for primary care healthcare professionals who may be involved in arranging and completing Annual Health Checks in BSW.
For professionals who work across health, social care or education and have contact with individuals with a learning disability the ICB has communication materials that can be shared to make every contact count.
Annual Health Checks Professional leaflet
Primary Care Resource
If you would like more information on Annual Health Checks support in BSW you can contact the BSW ICB Learning Disability, Autism and Neurodivergence team at bswicb.ldan@nhs.net.
Learning Disability Register
Below is a guidance that outlines the learning disability register and coding guidance for practices.
Core Annual Health Guidance
National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) annual health checks
Annual-Health-Check-Toolkit-Final.pdf (ndti.org.uk)
Nice guidance on Annual Health Check quality statement:
https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qs187/chapter/Quality-statement-4-Annual-health-check
Nice recommendation guidance:
Material resources
Detail on resources to be updates, any resources to add:
Managing the Learning Disability register – detail to follow
Guidance on Practice engagement
Invite letter
STOMP
Details to be added
Standard Health Action Plan
Reasonable adjustments guide
NDTi guide – link to be added
Vaccination guidance
To be supplied by vaccination team
Onward Referrals
What referral services would be helpful to detail
Additional resources
Resources available on request include templates for annual reminder letters, action plans and leaflets to share with patients and their parents and or carers. If you would like access to these resources, please contact bswicb.ldan@nhs.net.
Available resources include:
- Template for annual reminder letter
- Action plan
- Leaflets for patients and their parent carers
This list is reviewed and updated based on themes of feedback received.
Need more information?
If you would like more information on Annual Health Checks support in BSW you can contact the BSW ICB Learning Disability, Autism and Neurodivergence team at bswicb.ldan@nhs.net.
Contact your local Community Learning Disability Team if you are unsure if a patient does or does not have a learning disability. (contacts?)