Hansard

Learning Disability

Volume 497: debated on Wednesday 14 October 2009

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Mr. Stephen O'Brien

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many people with a learning disability have been referred for further treatment as a result of an annual health check in the latest period for which figures are available (290203)

(2) how many practising GPs have (a) had training and (b) been accredited to provide health checks to people with a learning disability.

Mr. Stephen O'Brien

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what steps he plans to take to (a) monitor and (b) evaluate the effect of direct enhanced service annual health checks on people with a learning disability; (290204)

(2) how many people with a learning disability have had a health check in the last 12 months.

Phil Hope

We have commissioned an extraction of data from a sample of general practitioner (GP) practice clinical systems. This information will be used to inform the continued commissioning of this Directed Enhanced Service through the GP contract arrangements.

We will also collect information to support a newly agreed Vital Sign indicator on the number of health checks completed in 2008-09. This will begin in October. This exercise will be repeated in May 2010 to collect retrospective information on the number of checks completed in 2009-10.