Don't miss out on extra 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.
are at high risk of missing out on the healthcare they need. To use healthcare services, and to look after your health, you may need extra support from your GP surgery. Mencap has created these four leaflets to help you get extra support from the doctor at your GP surgery.
Leaflet 1: getting help when visiting the doctor
Guide 1 tells you why it's important to get support when visiting the doctor, and introduces you to the kind of support you can get.
Leaflet 2: How to join the Learning Disability register
Leaflet 2 tells you how to make sure your doctor knows you have a learning disability, and how to join the
learning disability register
The learning disability register is a list of people with a learning disability that the doctor’s surgery looks after.
at your GP surgery.
Leaflet 3: getting a health check each year
Leaflet 3 tells you more about annual (once a year) health checks, which can help you stay healthy, and give you the chance to get to know your GP better.
Leaflet 4: How to ask your GP surgery to make things easier for you
Leaflet 4 is all about reasonable adjustments at the GP surgery. Reasonable adjustments are helpful changes to the way a service works to make it easier for disabled people.