Health checks for people with a learning disability
Have a health check every year
It’s important for anyone over 14 who’s on their doctor’s learning disability list to have a check-up every year.
This check-up helps keep you healthy by talking with a doctor or nurse about your health and finding any problems early so they can be fixed.
You don’t have to be sick to have a check-up – most people do it even when they feel fine.
More information
- Annual health check – easy read guide
- My annual health check: top to toe – easy read. This guide will be shared before the annual health check to help you prepare and think about the things that you would like to ask the doctor
- Reasonable Adjustments for my health appointment – easy read guide
- My care passport
- Guide for carers, family and friends – annual health checks
- Getting ready for your annual health check – a guide for carers
- Easy read | Am I on the LD register?
The Brighton and Hove Community Learning Disability Team
The Community Learning Disability Team provides specialist services for adults aged 18 and older with learning disabilities in Brighton & Hove.
The Community Learning Disability Team provides specialist health and social care services to adults with learning disabilities and their families, including:
- Care management and social care
- Community nursing
- Occupational therapy
- Physiotherapy
- Psychiatry
- Psychology, including behaviour support and counselling
- Speech and language therapy.
Contact The Community Learning Disability Team
Call: 01273 295550
Contact the learning disability liaison nurses
Call: 01273 696955, ext. 64975
Helpful websites and organisations
- My Life Brighton & Hove: the information hub for health and social care in Brighton & Hove.
- Amaze: local organisation supporting parent carers and young people with a special educational need and/or a disability.
- Preparing for adulthood: information for 16-25 year olds with a special educational need and/or a disability about becoming more independent.
- NHS – get advice on different health conditions
- Mencap – get information and support on lots of things, including relationships, housing, travel and wellbeing
- Grace Eyre – local support for people with a learning disability
Get help asking for help
An advocacy organisation can help people with learning disabilities speak up and take action about the things that matter to them.
- Speak Out (Brighton and Hove)
- Impact Initiatives (East and West Sussex)
