Learning disability GP health checks 'show results'

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A scheme getting GPs to offer health checks to patients with learning disabilities in England is helping to pick up problems, research suggests.

A study in Lancet Psychiatry, looking at data for more than 8,000 patients, found surgeries in the scheme were twice as likely to identify problems.

But many patients who are entitled to the checks are still missing out.

The Down's Syndrome Association said there was a lack of awareness that the health checks were available.
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