Learning Disabilities: Premature Deaths

Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe Excerpts

Wednesday 30th July 2014 Lords Chamber

[Earl Howe]

I take my noble friend’s point. The specific needs of people with learning disabilities are being considered as part of the overall work programme to provide people with online access to their GP practice and GP-held e-record. That is being done in the wider context of the development of a fully comprehensive patient-held record. NHS England plans to hold a meeting later this year to look at developing a national standard for a hospital passport. This will be a patient-held document that will detail key information to be shared with any contact in the NHS.

[Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (Lab)]

My Lords, what is the Minister doing to ensure that comprehensive community learning disability teams are available in all areas and that GPs are proactively referring patients with a learning disability to these vital services?