• Got a learning disability?
• Over 14 years old?
• Then get a checkup

Ask for a free learning-disability health check at your local GP practice!

If you are a parent/carer of a young person or adult with a learning disability, this is how to arrange a free health check for them.

• Ask your GP to enter their name on the practice's Learning Disability Register
• You will be sent a letter with an appointment
• The letter tells you what will happen at the the health check
• After the health check, the GP will gobe you a Health Action Plan
• Your GP will also ask whether you are willing to share important information with other health care professionals to benefit the person you care for

Organisations who can help

• The Advocacy People
• Mobile: 07912 309 122; alex.osterritter@theadvocacypeople.org.uk
• Reading Mencap
• Tel: 0118 966 2518; communications@readingmencap.org.uk; https://www.readingmencap.org.uk
• ACRE
• Tel: 0118 951 0279; shagufta.ali@acre-reading.org;
• https://acre-reading.org

Click here for a link to the information flyer with further details of organisations in West Berkshire and Wokingham that can help

Please talk to your GP about the following, procedures, conditions or symptoms:

• Menopause - this is when you stop having periods.  This happens when you are in your 40's or 50's.  Click here to read more about it (from Swindon PCT Learning Disability Service)
• Having a smear test - What is it about?  Click here to find out more (from Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust)
• Cervical screening - Click here to read the Easy Guide to Cervical Screening from the NHS
• Prostate - what changes should you look out for? Click here to read the easy guide (from Prostate Cancer UK)
• Anxiety - what to do we start to feel too anxious. Click here for the easy read guide (from the Mental Health Foundation)