A Comparative Review of Primary Health Care Models for People with Learning Disabilities: Towards the Provision of Seamless Health Care

The various health care needs of people with learning disabilities continue to present major challenges to providers of primary health care. At the same time there is a growing body of evidence which demonstrates that the health needs of people with learning disabilities can be well met by offering full health checks. This review looks at the way in which (in recent years) various providers of primary and specialist services have attempted to meet the primary health care needs of the client group. The benefits of a number of models of pro‐active primary health care are scrutinised. User and carer involvement (inclusion), specialist health service involvement, accessibility, comprehensiveness and effectiveness are compared and contrasted.