NHS trusts should be measured on their performance in providing healthcare access to people with learning disabilities, a leading campaigner has said. David Congdon, Mencap's head of campaigns and ...

The health secretary has written to GPs to encourage practices to make full use of additional income provided for ensuring learning disability registers are up to date and carrying out annual health ...

Young people with disabilities and additional needs in residential schools and colleges will soon be offered free NHS hearing, dental and eyesight checks by trained staff in their schools. NHS sensory ...

Young people with disabilities and additional needs in residential schools and colleges will soon be offered free NHS hearing, dental and eyesight checks by trained staff in their schools. NHS sensory ...

GPs are conducting rising numbers of health checks in patients with learning difficulties, but most are still missing out on the annual assessments, say researchers. The figures come despite a ...

This Down’s Syndrome Day (21st March), a local NHS trust is encouraging people who have a learning disability to have their ...

(MENAFN- Pressat) NHS England has been working in collaboration with DanceSyndrome, a Lancashire-based charity with a mission to change the way that people think about learning disabilities, to launch ...

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Nursing and charity leaders have welcomed new funding from the Scottish Government to introduce annual health checks for people in the country with learning disabilities. Health boards will receive ...