Screening programme Blog Posts

• Lack of strategic commitment to annual health checks threatens to widen health inequality for people with learning disabilities

  19 Nov 2012

  • John Northfield

  
• Researchers with learning disabilities get mixed response from GP surgeries when looking at annual health checks

  12 Jul 2012

  • John Northfield

  
• Women with learning disabilities have limited understanding of breast and cervical screening

  20 Jun 2012

  • John Northfield

  
• Study recommends screening for malnourishment in high risk individuals with learning disability

  18 Jan 2012

  • John Northfield
• Study finds poor progress towards implementing health checks for people with learning disabilities

  21 Dec 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• Guidance on better health outcomes for commissioners and providers of social care for people with learning disabilities

  20 Dec 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• More accessible information needed to improve uptake of mammography by women with learning disabilities

  17 Jun 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• First responses by the Criminal Justice system to people with learning disabilities can be improved

  23 May 2011

  • John Northfield