Learning Disabilities Questionnaire

You may get a questionnaire about learning disabilities from the health board which asks for information over your contractual obligations.

The contractual requirements for monitoring are clearly defined:

• Total number of patients on the LD register.

• Number of health checks offered.

• Number of health checks completed.

The questionnaire asks for considerably more granular information, including staff training percentages, the availability of read easy materials, and a detailed breakdown of reasonable adjustments (e.g., direct phone lines, specific spaces for carers, outreach capacity).

Gathering this level of detail would be entirely voluntary for the practice but not contractual.

Can we also bring to your attention that a tile is now available in PCIP: Learning Disabilities Health Checks - Tile in the Primary Care Information Portal

Following the transfer of the requirements of the Directed Supplementary Service (DSS) for Learning Disabilities (LD) into ‘unified’ services in the GMS contract 2025/26, an Audit+ module was deployed to Practices to support the monitoring requirements that all Practices are required to provide:

1. The total number of patients on the LD register

2. number of health checks offered

3. number of health checks completed

The Audit+ module whilst supporting Practices with day-to-day activities also submits aggregate data (to support contractual requirements) which we are pleased to say is now available and presented within the Primary Care Information Portal