Learning Disabilities

Resources:

Strategies/reasonable adjustments:

Video: What is a learning disability

Video: Communicating with people with learning disabilities

Video: reasonable adjustments for people with a learning disability

Video: making reasonable adjustments and barriers to healthcare

Hospital passport – the hospital passport is designed to help people communicate their needs (including how they communicate, likes and dislikes, sensory needs and what is important to them) to doctors, nurses and other health and care staff. People with learning disabilities can complete the passport (with support where needed) and this information can be used by health and care professionals to know how best to support them and to make sure the right reasonable adjustments are in place.

Downloadable Homerton hospital health passport

 

Learning disability registers

Improving identification of people with a learning disability: guidance for general practice (

Learning Disability Register Inclusion Tool for GPs and primary care

Video: the learning disability register

Video: what is the learning disability register

 

Annual Health checks

RCGP Step-by-step guide to Health Checks for people with a learning disability

NHS England/NDTI Learning disability annual health check toolkit

Video: annual health checks for people with a learning disability for patients

Video: what happens at my Learning Disability Annual Health Check

EASY READ annual health checks

Pre assessment questionnaire

Health action plan easy read?

Cancer screening

  • Bowel

EASY READ Bowel cancer screening test

EASY READ How to use the NHS Bowel cancer screening kit

EASY READ Bowel scope test

Tips for collecting your poo leaflet

 

  • Breast

EASY READ Breast screening an easy guide

Do the test – GO FOR IT Breast screening video

 

  • Cervical

EASY READ having a smear test