Publication, Part of Learning Disabilities Health Check Scheme

[MI] Learning Disabilities Health Check Scheme February 2023

Publication Date:: 23 Mar 2023
Geographic Coverage:: England
Geographical Granularity:: GP practices, Regions, Country
Date Range:: 01 Feb 2023 to 28 Feb 2023

Summary

The learning disabilities health check scheme is designed to encourage practices to identify all patients aged 14 and over with learning disabilities, to maintain a learning disabilities 'health check' register and offer them an annual health check, which will include producing a health action plan.

The learning disabilities health check scheme is one of a number of GP enhanced services. Enhanced services are voluntary reward programmes that cover primary medical services; one of their main aims is to reduce the burden on secondary care services. Data for other enhanced services are published annually, the latest release of these data is available under related links below.

Key Facts

We have created a repository of the code used to produce the Learning Disability Health Check Scheme publication which is available on the NHS Digital GitHub: https://github.com/NHSDigital/ldhc_publication