Confidential Inquiry into the deaths of people with learning disabilities

Pauline HeslopAnna Marriott

Annual Health Checks Workshop

Annual Health Checks• DES is designed to encourage

GP practices to identify patients aged 18 and over with learning disabilities and offer an annual health check.

• 71% had had AHC• 17% had received AHC > 12

months prior to their death• 12% had never had AHC.

Problems• Quality and recording of annual

health checks was variable• Issue of what is included in the

annual health check• Annual health checks were not

always leading to Health Action Plans

• Jessica’s story

Good practice

• The majority of people whose deaths were reviewed had received AHC

Recommendations

• Minimum requirements for Annual Health Checks should be introduced

• Annual health checks should lead to a short, written accessible health action plan

• Named individual responsible for actioning this.

The way forward?