Kirklees Learning Disability Health Information and Resources
We have worked with Leeds Health Facilitation Team and Kirklees Involvement Network (KIN) to have useful and accessible information.
This work is part of the Living Well Project, there is more information on the Inclusion North website.
We have also worked with Kirklees Involvement Network and Kirklees Local Authority to update the Stay Healthy Kirklees website.
For more information on lots more health conditions please visit the Easy Health website.
If you need pictures to help make information easier to read. Please see Leeds Image Bank.
NHS England newsletter
The NHS England easy read newsletter helps people know more about the things listed below and more:
- Lung cancer – signs of lung cancer and what to do if you see them
- Smoking and e-cigarettes (vaping) – tips to help you, your friends or family stop smoking
- Healthy eating – what healthy eating is, and why it is important to eat well
- NHS App – what the NHS App is and how you get it
- Constipation
- Eating disorders in autistic people
- Pneumonia
If you would like a paper copy, please e-mail engage
We are working together across West Yorkshire to improve the lives of people with learning disabilities. Find out more about our Learning Disabilities Challenge.
- West Yorkshire Start Well information and resources for children and young people.
- Kirklees Children and young people
- Patients, Carers and Family Annual Health Checks 14+
- STAMP – Supporting Treatment and Appropriate Medication in children (STAMP). Find information and an easy read leaflet on the NHS STAMP website.
- West Yorkshire Live Well information and resources
- Patients, Carers and Family Annual Health Checks age 14+
- Stay Healthy Kirklees website
West Yorkshire Age Well information and resources- End of life care and Advanced Care Planning
- Staying Healthy- Dementia
Download a copy of the word document My Health Action File [DocX; 8 MB]
When going into hospital it might be helpful to fill out these documents to help others understand your needs.
VIP hospital passport – word version updated December 2024 [DocX; 3.9MB]
Mid Yorkshire Hospital Passport
Visit this page for more information on Health tests and vaccines. This is also called national health screening.
Vaccines are sometimes called injections or jabs.
Here is a a Cancer Screening Timeline tool. Thank you to Kit McGowan, Pilot Project Lead – Cancer Screening, for making this tool.
Cancer Screening Timeline 2025
Download the West Yorkshire Learning and Best Practice Annual Showcase PowerPoint presentation. [PPTx; 350KB] .
View the Unsafe Swallow & Aspiration Project videos on YouTube.
View the Eating and drinking and knowing about the risks Resources from the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and the Learning Disability Network on Flipbook.
Looking out for signs that someone with learning disability might be ill with the Health Innovation North West Coast – RESTORE2 / Mini education resource.
The Learning Disability Service in Leeds have made and shared their work on Restore 2 and Pulse Oximetry. They are happy for people in Kirklees to use these documents.
Having problems pooing can make you very ill. If you cannot have a poo it is sometimes called constipation.
It is important to know what healthy poo looks like. Use this Bowel-chart [PDF; 170 KB] to find out.
Get resources to help people with Constipation and with learning disabilities on the Campaign Resource website or the NHS LeDeR website.
The Poobusters: constipation awareness video on YouTube is a fun and catchy video with important information from Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
You can also use the Consiptation toolkit (Information for health professionals) [PDF 6.7MB].
Health and Social Care Providers
Dying well and advanced care planning
Sepsis is when your body fights too hard against infection. It’s sometimes called blood poisoning.
It is important to know the signs of sepsis so you can get help quickly.
If you think you might have sepsis, it is important that you go to hospital straight away.
There is easy read information on the NHS England website about –
- Signs of sepsis
- How to avoid sepsis
- After you’ve had sepsis
YouTube: NHS Sherwood Forest Hospitals video about sepsis for people with a learning disability
Diabetes Easy Health information
Diabetes UK Diabetes Learning Disability Health Network information
- Menopause Seeability easy read with audio
- Learning disability and the menopause podcast
- My Menopause: a film by Suffolk Libraries and Ace Anglia (youtube.com)
- Kirklees and Calderdale Menopause – HÄLSA Wellbeing (halsawellbeing.com)
- Support for Staff, Let’s talk menopause :: Workforce Transformation (wystaffwellbeinghub.co.uk)
All-About-the-Perimenopause-and-Menopause-Easy-Read-REDUCED [PDF 4.3MB]
Medication and stopping over medication of people with a learning disability, autism or both (STOMP)
- Kirklees easy read mental health support guide [PDF 2.6MB]
Other languages
WY ICB Easy Read documents
These documents are in easy read but may not meet your access needs. If you need them in another format like braille or larger print or find them difficult to use please let us know and we will do our best to help.
If you are unable to find what you are looking for please visit the Leeds Get Checked Out webpages or contact Billie-jo.