Health and Care of People with Learning Disabilities Experimental Statistics 2019 to 2020

57.8% of patients (58.4% female and 57.4% male) with a learning disability had a Learning Disability Health Check in 2019-20, a statistically significant increase from 51.6% (52.3% female and 51.1% male) in 2015-16.

The 14 to 17 age band is the only age group that shows an annual increase in the percentage of health checks carried out over the five years, from 25.3% in 2015-16 to 38.7% in 2019-20 (an increase of 13.4 percentage points).

All other age bands show an increase in the percentage of health checks carried out each year from 2015-16 to 2018-19, however there is a decrease in the percentage of health checks carried out for these age bands in 2019-20. This decrease is significant in the following age bands: 25 to 34, 35 to 44, 50 to 54, 60 to 64, 65 to 69, 75 and over.