Patients who live with a learning disability face more barriers to accessing healthcare. Having a learning disability can affect how a person learns new things throughout life. Depending on the complexity of their learning disability, they may need a range of extra support throughout life.
We have a series of Learning Disability Champions here at Long Bennington Medical Centre to help facilitate appointments, make reasonable adjustments and support our learning disability patients with their annual health check reviews. They Include Amy or Administration Champion, Avril our Nurse Champion and Dr Peter Watson our GP Champion.
Patients with a learning disability will also recieve a leaflet to help support attending Long Bennington Medical Centre for appointments with Nurses, Doctors and HCA's. Patients will also get a pre-annual healthcheck booklet to help prepare for their appointment and a feedback questionnaire to help give us valuable feedback and ideas.
