Learning disabilities

• Don’t Miss Out: get better healthcare now (A4)
• Don’t Miss Out: get better healthcare now (A3)
• Annual Health Check – easy read
• Annual Health Check – easy read (aimed at parents/carers)

Graphics

Facebook graphics:

• Summary Care Record
• Parent/carer focus
• GP learning disability register

Twitter graphics:

• Summary Care Record
• Parent/carer focus
• GP learning disability register

Guides and templates

Created by Mencap with NHS England’s support for people with a learning disability, their families and carers:

• Our stories – a short video of people with a learning disability talking about annual health checks
• Be healthy, be happy – a short animation
• Don’t Miss Out – main guide – about joining the learning disability register and why it’s so important
• Don’t Miss Out – supporter’s guide – for supporters of people with a learning disability, it explains about joining the learning disability register and why it’s so important
• Don’t Miss Out – template letter – to complete and give to the doctor about joining the learning disability register.
• Don’t Miss Out – easy read guide – about joining the learning disability register and why it’s important

Summary Care Record with Additional Information (SCRAI)

Guidance for GPs to use SCR to make more information available across care settings is available on the NHS Digital website. Share this easy read patient leaflet explaining SCR AI.

National electronic Health check (Learning Disabilities) clinical template

This document is only a guide – providing an initial content summary and overview. The new National Electronic Health Check (Learning Disabilities) Clinical Template will be made available through the GP system.

Royal College of GPs (RCGP) step-by-step toolkit

The RCGP, in partnership with the Clinical Innovation and Research Centre, developed and published a step-by-step toolkit focussed on annual health checks for people with learning disabilities. The toolkit collects guidance and resources to help GPs, practice nurses and the primary administration team organise and perform quality AHCs on people with a learning disability.

Access this toolkit via the RCGP website.

Cervical screening

Cervical screening can detect early changes to avoid cervical cancer developing but the number of women attending for screening is falling year on year. Fewer than 1 in 3 eligible females with a learning disability received cervical cancer screening, showing no change from 2014-15.

Here are some resources to support you to get the message out about this important cancer prevention initiative :

Resources

• Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust offers a suite of material which is specifically Learning Disability focussed including:
  • ‘The smear test film’ is available on YouTube or order a copy of the DVD for £3 – produced by Public Health England in association with Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust
  • Easy read booklet: Having a smear test. What is it about?
• Public Health England has also produced an easy guide to cervical screening.

Flu vaccination

People with learning disabilities and their carers can have a free flu vaccination to help them stay well every winter.  Here is a communications toolkit we developed a couple of years ago, including useful resources to help raise awareness, which are still valid year on year.

Download the high resolution resources (highlighted in the toolkit) below:

• Easy Read flu jab poster
• Social media graphic: ‘People with a learning disability should have the flu jab’
• Social media graphic: ‘Easy Read materials about the flu jab are available’
• Social media graphic: ‘Carers should have a flu jab to protect loved ones’

Breast screening

In the UK, women with learning disabilities are the least likely to attend breast screening. You can help encourage more take up by using the resources below:

Graphics suitable for print (e.g. newsletters, magazines) and online (e.g. website, Facebook)

• Help make breast screening accessible
• Support women with learning disabilities to take care of their breasts
• Women need to take care of their breasts
• Whatever you call them. You need to check them.

Suitable for Twitter

• Help make breast screening accessible
• Support women with learning disabilities to take care of their breasts
• Women need to take care of their breasts
• Whatever you call them. You need to check them.

Additional resources:

Template Easy Read letters developed in Cornwall

• Invitation
• Did Not Attend (DNA) follow-up
• Recall to take further pictures
• Recall letter because the pictures were unclear
• Results – the all clear
• Changes in the Breast – image sheet developed and successfully used in Cornwall
• Keep Yourself Healthy A Guide To Examining Your Breasts
• Be Clear on Cancer: Easy read breast cancer leaflet
• Be Clear on Cancer: Large print breast cancer leaflet

Breast Cancer Care: Your breasts, your health