Learning disabilities and healthcare: what do we need to know?

A report from the Learning Disabilities Observatory maps the data collected on the health and healthcare of people with learning disabilities. As its name suggests (NHS Data Gaps for Learning Disabilities), the report also describes the gaps in knowledge needed to plan for and assess healthcare provided for people with learning disabilities. The report proposes some changes to data collection that would offer huge improvements, including introducing additional samples of people with learning disabilites in the Health Survey for England, making more effective use of QOF data and a national audit of GP healthchecks for people with learning disabilites.