Checking Up On Des: My Life My Choice's research into annual health checks for people with learning disabilities in Oxfordshire

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SummaryThis is about research an Oxfordshire Self‐Advocacy Organisation did into annual health checks for people with learning disabilities. The self‐advocates worked with Oxfordshire's Primary Care Health Facilitator and a Professor to find out why only one in four people in our area had a health check in 2009/10 (Emerson & Glover 2010a,b). The article tells you what we did in ‘Easy Read’ with pictures.