Annual health checks Blog Posts

• Annual health checks may reduce emergency hospital admissions for preventable conditions

  30 Sep 2016

  • Pauline Heslop

  
• Introduction and Uptake of Annual Health Checks across Northern Ireland for Patients with Learning Disabilities

  04 Nov 2015

  • Alix Dixon

  
• Preventative healthcare – understanding uptake and barriers for people with learning disabilities

  01 May 2015

  • Angela Henderson

  
• Bridging The Health Gap. An incentivised Scheme for Primary Care GP’s

  01 Apr 2015

  • Tara Quinn-Cirillo

  
• Survey on uptake and quality of annual health checks looking for parents/carers to respond

  02 Feb 2015

  • John Northfield

  
• Six out of ten GP surgeries are signed up to the Directed Enhanced Scheme in England, but 40% of patients with learning disabilities did not get a health check

  09 Jan 2015

  • John Northfield

  
• BMA sets out actions for ‘parity of esteem’ in learning disability health outcomes

  09 Jun 2014

  • John Northfield

  
• Reasonable adjustments in primary care for people with learning disabilities

  22 May 2014

  • Matt Hoghton

  
• PCTs underperforming in provision of annual health checks for people with learning disabilities continue to do so

  04 Nov 2013

  • John Northfield

  
• Eye care improvements found in joint pilot project for people with learning disabilities

  03 Jun 2013

  • John Northfield