Advice on this
website
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is correct for England. Advice for other home nations may differ.
For advice in Wales, please contact the Welsh helpline team
For advice in Northern Ireland, please visit nidirect.gov.uk
Advice for healthcare workers
Heath advice and resources to help you support people with a
learning disability
A learning disability is to do with the way someone's brain works. It makes it harder for someone to learn, understand or do things.
Joining the learning disability register
The
learning disability register
The learning disability register is a list of people with a learning disability that the doctor’s surgery looks after.
is a list of people with a learning disability. It helps your doctor and healthcare staff know what support you need.
Other ways to get advice
If you need advice or information that isn't here, then consider getting in contact with our helpline, or joining our online
community
A community is the people and places in an area.
to kick start a conversation.
We hold the Advice Quality Standard so you can be sure about the quality of the advice we provide.
The Mencap helpline is a member of Advice UK in England.