Event overview

Join us for a One Day Essentials conference on the medical needs of our patients with a learning disability. The national learning disability mortality review programme learning from lives and deaths LeDeR (2023 annual report published January 2026) has shone a light on the huge health inequalities experienced by this population. This course will cover a variety of topics aiming to help GPs support the health needs and complexity of their patients with a learning disability. The focus of the ODE will be on improving health in line with the move from hospital to community, sickness to prevention and analogue to digital.

All live One Day Essentials conferences (ODEs) are free and available exclusively to RCGP members. Check your diary, register to attend, or if you can’t make it access the content on REWIND. You can catch up on all the recordings and presentation slides for up to nine months afterwards, and you can register at any point during this time.

Note: we endeavour to upload content as quickly as possible after the conference; this typically takes up to two weeks.

Learning objectives

  • To gain further understanding of how to support improving the health of people with a learning disability
  • To further develop understanding of the health inequalities experienced by this population of people with a learning disability
  • To improve awareness of a variety of tools to support practice improvement
  • To develop GP confidence to manage the complexity of need of people with a learning disability in conjunction with the wider multidisciplinary team

Conference co-chairs

Dr Kathy Petersen, GP Partner, Forum Family Practice, Strategic clinical lead for mental health

Dr Alison Tavare, NHSE SW Learning Disability Collaborative Clinical Lead Health Innovation West of England Clinical Lead, NCEPOD Clinical Co-ordinator

Access

ODE live: exclusive to RCGP members

ODE REWIND: free to all

Live event

This online conference will take place on Zoom. Once registered, a link to join will be sent nearer to the date.

REWIND access

The recordings and presentations for this conference will be available to delegates to access for nine months from the date of the conference. Typically, it takes 2-3 weeks post-event for access to become available. If you are registered you will be notified once the REWIND pages become available.