Nursing and charity leaders have welcomed new funding from the Scottish Government to introduce annual health checks for people in the country with learning disabilities. Health boards will receive ...

Local learning disability charity Sheffield Mencap and Gateway has raised concerns over the Government’s decision to remove targets for annual health checks for people with learning disabilities from ...

GPs are conducting rising numbers of health checks in patients with learning difficulties, but most are still missing out on the annual assessments, say researchers. The figures come despite a ...

The health secretary has written to GPs to encourage practices to make full use of additional income provided for ensuring learning disability registers are up to date and carrying out annual health ...

A candidate for next year’s Scottish Parliament election has slammed the Scottish Government inaction as adults with learning disabilities were left without vital health checks North Lanarkshire ...