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Meeting the health needs of people with learning disabilities

Last updated 02 Jun 2010, review date due 02 Jun 2012

The following information is relevant to people who live in England and Scotland 

In England a strategy has been produced to shape the future of learning disability services. It’s called Valuing People Now (2009). In Scotland there’s a similar strategy called The same as you? (2000).

These strategies stress the importance of people with learning disabilities having the same access to services as everyone else.

For this to happen, everyone with learning disabilities should have a health action plan. A family doctor, nurse or other health professional should be able to arrange for a health action plan to be drawn up. However, when the epilepsy is more complex, it’s likely that a specialist service will help draw up this plan.


We can provide references and information on the source material we use to write our epilepsy advice and information pages. Please contact our Epilepsy Helpline by email at helpline@epilepsy.org.uk.

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