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Health and Care of People with Learning Disabilities: Experimental Statistics: 2015 to 2016
Experimental statistics, Other reports and statistics- Publication Date:
- 6 Apr 2017
- Geographic Coverage:
- England
- Geographical Granularity:
- Regions, Sub-Integrated Care Boards
- Date Range:
- 01 Apr 2015 to 31 Mar 2016
Summary
These are aggregated data on key health issues for people who are recorded by their GP as having a learning disability, and comparative data about a control group who are not recorded by their GP as having a learning disability.
Highlights
· Just over 56 per cent of patients registered at General Practices in England are represented in this dataset, including 146,005 people with a learning disability and 32,491,016 people without a learning disability
· On average, females with learning disabilities had around an 18 year shorter life expectancy than the general population, and males had around a 14 year shorter life expectancy than the general population
· 3 in 4 eligible patients with a learning disability received colorectal cancer screening, an increase from just over 2 in 3 in 2014-15
· Breast cancer screening for eligible female patients decreased in all age groups in both patients with and without a learning disability. Females aged 65 to 69 with a learning disability saw the largest decrease, from just under 55 per cent in 2014-15 to around 52 per cent in 2015-16
· The percentage of patients known to their GP as having a learning disability who received an annual learning disability health check increased to 46 per cent from 43 per cent in 2014-15
· Obesity is twice as common in people aged 18-35 with learning disabilities, being underweight is twice as common in people aged over 64 with learning disabilities, compared with patients with no learning disabilities