Health Practitioner Resources
See below collated resources of use in supporting patients with intellectual disability
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Council for Intellectual Disability
- Resources for health professionals
Maximising the use of the CHAP
Intellectual Disability and the National Safety and Quality Health service standards
Reasonable Adjustments
- Reasonable adjustment checklist for health professionals
- Intellectual disability in primary care
Health Pathways
- Check your local health pathways for intellectual disability content
- How to use health pathways
- Journal article effects of a CHAP
- Journal article nursing care for people with intellectual disability
Consent and Health Care Decisions
- Office of the Public Guardian – health decisons
Common Health Conditions
- Resources for learning disability annual health checks (UK)
Genetic Health and Testing
Abbey Pain Scale
- For measurement of pain in people who are unable to verbalise
GP role
- Content around developmental disability and your role in care