1. Direct Enhanced Scheme for People with Learning Disabilities
Stephan Brusch
Promoting Equality Lead (Strategy)
Service Development Manager

2. What is it and where does it come from?
Policy Background
National Contract for Primary Care Services

3. What’s in it? Practices will need to: Offer an annual health check
Undertake awareness training for practice staff
Set up and maintain a register of people with Learning Disabilities

4. What needs to be done? Engage with your service users: Training
Information
For example we developed an accessible version of the survey used as part of ‘Ask your Patient Week’. We complemented this also by running two focus groups.

5. What needs to be done? Collaborate with clinicians
Involve the GPs for example through statement of intent, individual consultation and piloting the template.
Involvement the specialist learning disability teams
Liaise with head of Primary Care, PEC etc. of Primary Care Development Managers,

6. What needs to be done? Assessing health needs and manage information:
Agree the population
Agree on health check
Agree on data collection/ quality assurance

7. Whole System Output and Outcome Input Annual Health Checks
Health Action Plans
Public Health Data
Improved Access
Better Health and well being
More integrated care

8. How can we overcome these?
What are the Barriers?
How can we overcome these?