Mencap welcomed an NHS pledge to provide annual health checks for people with learning disabilities in England as a “major step forward in reducing health inequalities”. However, the charity expressed ...

Scrapping vital NHS targets for people with a learning disability “is a dangerous step backwards and could have serious ...

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 ...

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

Lord Paul Scriven, a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords, has spent years championing the rights of learning ...

While epilepsy affects one percent of the general population, this figure rises to 22.2% for people with learning disabilities. The researchers analysed nearly 10,000 deaths of adults with ...

Progress on improving health and social care for learning disabled people has been slow despite a damning report last year, the Department of Health said today. Progress on improving health and social ...