Here is a selection of useful information for GPs and carers of those with learning disabilities:

• View Downloads on this page for easy-read and large-print forms
• Visit Contacts for Carers – a comprehensive list of organisations to support carers
• View the presentations and webcasts from the CamEd RCGP learning disability session from 17 May 2017
• Easy read leaflets for health promotion
• Leaflets for constipation and people with a learning disability
• Improving GP learning disability registers – how to perform the searches and the codes that need to be added to add a patient to the register
• View the guidance on flu vaccines for PWLD – (see Downloads for easy-to-read leaflet).
• LeDeR is a national review of deaths of people with learning disabilities. Please use this website to report a death of patient with learning disability over 4 years old.
• STOMP and STAMP are initiatives to stop over medication and support appropriate treatment in children with learning disabilities.
• This leaflet provides information on STOMP and STAMP to help families become more involved in discussion regarding psychotropic medication.

How to prepare your patient for a hospital visit:

• Ask their carer to fill in a Hospital Passport to take with the patient
• Encourage the patient to watch the UCLH or RFH video prior to their visit