Identifying people with learning disabilities in general practice

Living WELL | October 1, 2005| | Copyright

Key points

* Valuing People expects that general practices and learning disability services will work together to identify people with learning disabilities on practice lists.

* Coding of learning disability in electronic patient records in general practice is not of high enough quality to meet the demands made of NHS/primary care information systems.

* Coding of learning disability in general practice is not solely an IT problem.

* Successful implementation of Valuing People health targets in primary care requires improvements in joint working.

* Incentives may be needed to improve the ...

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