Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which integrated care boards are (a) meeting and (b) not meeting the NHS target of completing 75 per cent of annual health checks for people aged 14 or over with a learning disability by 2023-24; and what level are those not meeting the target of at least 75 per cent reaching.

We are taking action to reduce inequalities for people with a learning disability and autistic people, including annual health checks to help identify undetected health conditions early and ensure the appropriateness of ongoing treatments. The NHS Long Term Plan sets out an ambition to improve the uptake of the existing annual health check in primary care for people with a learning disability aged 14 years old and over, so that at least 75% of those eligible have a health check each year.

The attached report, from data published by NHS England, sets out data on annual health checks delivered in 2022/23 by area. It shows that, at the end of March 2023, 31 Integrated Care Systems / Transforming Care Partnership areas achieved the NHS Long Term Plan target of 75% or more for annual health checks for eligible people with a learning disability and 11 did not. The attached table shows the variation for those not currently meeting the target, this ranges from 66.1%-74.9%.