Walking Tour: GENERAL PRACTITIONERS

We hope that this tour will be useful to GPs and others working in primary care. If you are new to intellectual disability, you might also care to look at the Tour for Medical Students.

GPs will be seeing more people with intellectual disability. Instead of being hidden away in long-stay hospitals they live in ordinary housing. Both they and their families are entitled to the same quality of primary care that the rest of the population enjoys.

At the moment in England and Wales regular health checks for adults with intellectual disability are not included in measures of service quality. However, such measurement may well be introduced in the future. You may therefore be interested in the St George's Health Check Questionnaire, which is slightly different to existing screening questionnaires.

Enjoy your walk.