Your Annual Health Check
Annual Health Check
People with learning disabilities have poorer health outcomes. Annual health checks help you stay well by talking about your health and checking for problems early on.
We will invite you for a health check each year. To prepare for your health check we will ask you to fill in the health checklist shown below.
Healthwatch Annual Health Check Checklist
These videos explain more about having a health check:
Video
Introduction to Annual Health Checks for people with a Learning Disability
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Introduction to Annual Health Checks for people with a Learning Disability for carers and families
Website
Stay supercharged and fully fit by having your annual health checkHealth Screening and Immunisations
An Easy read guide to Flu vaccination Flu Injection Resource (ndti.org.uk)
How to look after my balls
A guide to examining your breasts
An easy guide to Breast Screening
An easy guide to bowel Cancer Screening
An easy guide to Cervical ScreeningGP Annual Health Checks for Children with Learning Disabilities
The factsheet below is for parents of a child or young person with a learning disability. It has information on GP learning disability registers and annual health checks, why they are important and how you can support your child or young person to access the services they are entitled to.
Annual Health Checks For Children With Learning Disabilities – FactsheetThe GP Learning Disability Register
Is a list of people (children and adults) who are registered at the practice with a learning disability. Anyone with a learning disability can be on this list.
Being on the register means you can get extra support from your GP and the practice staff. Extra support known as reasonable adjustments. Examples might be: longer appointment times, help with making appointments, quiet waiting rooms, information in easy read format as well as access to an Annual Health Check and access to flu immunisation.
Learning disabilities
Page published: 15 December 2023
Last updated: 15 December 2023