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• 7 June 2024

  Learning Disability Annual Health Check

  An annual health check is a yearly check-up which often takes place at your doctor’s surgery. It may also happen at your home in some cases. Having a health check every year can help you find out if you have any health problems you need support with and will give you the opportunity to speak to your GP or nurse.

  The Suffolk and North East Essex Joint Forward Plan identifies the need to address health inequalities for people with learning disabilities and autism. One way of doing this is to improve the quality of the annual health checks. Some people have told us of their experiences of having an annual health check and we would like to hear from more people in our communities of their experiences of having an annual health check.

  We would like to know what is working well and where things need to be made better. The questionnaires will enable people to

  • Share experiences of their annual health check.

  • Feedback about what worked well for them and what could be better.

  • Help the NHS to know how they could be better supported to attend their annual health check.

  A questionnaire is available for people over the age of 14 who have had an annual health check and for anyone caring for or supporting someone with a learning disability.

  These questionnaires will help us to make improvements and share positive experiences, as we want all annual health checks to be good.

  Where can I find the questionnaire?

  Your surgery will send you a link to the ‘Let’s Talk SNEE’ platform where the questionnaire will be available to complete online. The questionnaire is for you and/or anyone that cares or supports you. Please do not share it with anyone else.