Learning Disability Annual Health Checks - Professional Guidance

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    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.

    Improving identification of people with a learning disability: guidance for general practice (england.nhs.uk)

    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:

    Recommendations | Care and support of people growing older with learning disabilities | Guidance | NICE

    Material resources

    Managing the Learning Disability register coding

    STOMP and STAMP - Stopping over medication of people with a learning disability and autistic people (STOMP) and supporting treatment and appropriate medication in paediatrics (STAMP)

    Vaccination guidance

    Learning Disability vaccination Flowchart and Reasonable Adjustments

    Vaccines Easy Read from Mencap for sharing with patients and Parent Carers

    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?)