Management of health for people with learning disabilities

Download Primary care service framework: management of health for people with learning disabilities.

Suite of practical resources for learning disabilities health checks

The following suite of practical resources will help GP practices deliver health checks for people with learning disabilities with support from community learning disability teams. They offer direction and practical assistance to carry out and support annual health checks.

These resources have been developed to complement the primary care service framework: Management of Health for People with Learning Disabilities in Primary Care (July 2007). These practical tools, put together jointly by Primary Care Unlimited, the Valuing People Support Team and the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities, focus on the delivery of annual health checks for people with learning disabilities by GP practices.

Annual health checks

• Health Checks - Summary of Steps and Support (pdf)
• GP Practice Step by Step Guide - at a glance (pdf)
• GP Practice Step by Step Guide supporting information (pdf)
• Health Checks - Role of the Community Learning Disability Team (pdf )
• Health Checks - Role of the PCT (pdf)

GP Information Systems e-templates and loading instructions

Following feedback, these templates have been re-ordered and there are now new loading instructions. Click on the links to access loading instructions for the following templates.

Template for iSOFT Premiere systems

• Loading and ISIS from disk
• ud99 (ZIP)

Template for iSOFT Synergy

• Enhanced_Service_Learning_Disabilities.tex
• ES Learning Disabilities.gdl
• ES Learning Disabilities.wse
• (Practices should contact iSOFT helpdesk for assistance as loading instructions were not available)

Template for Vision Systems

• LEARNDIS (HTML)
• LEARNDIS (Text)
• LEARNDIS-VISION TEMPLATE (Text)
• Loading guidelines into Vision

Template for EMIS LV systems

• Loading LD Template (Word)
• LEARNING (DAT)
• Downloading from email to floppy learning disabilities template (Word)

Strategic health facilitator for learning disabilities

• Clinical Lead H Grade job description
• Clinical Lead H Grade person spec
• Clinical Lead Health Facilitator full KSF

Thanks to Susan Brady, strategic health facilitator at South Birmingham PCT, for supplying a number of practical resources which are already well used in GP practices and details of the clinical lead job description for the strategic health facilitator role. 

Supporting people with dysphagia

The NPSA has issued a resource pack for health professionals, service users and carers for assessing and supporting people with dysphagia.  The toolkit is available on the NPSA website (www.npsa.nhs.uk/web/sitemap) under resources with a section for GPs, which has been accredited by the RSGP.