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People with intellectual disability can have significant healthcare needs and often multiple health conditions.
A person with intellectual disability is at high risk of poor health, chronic disease and unmanaged ill mental health.

By focusing on quality improvement activities in your practice you will be able to ensure your clinicians and practice staff are able supported and trained to offer patient-centred, comprehensive care to people with an intellectual disability.

Please feel free to download and save our templates, video’s and resources to your own clinical software and regularly review this page for any updates.

Download resource Intellectual Disability QI Change Ideas (PDF 102KB)

Plan Do Study Act (PDSA)

Improve the recording of patients with an intellectual disability (docx 123KB)
Improving the care for patients with an intellectual disability (docx 122KB)
Improve annual health assessments for patients with intellectual disability (docx 122KB)

GP Clinics – PDSA Audit process outline (docx 146 KB)

Resources

Resource TypeResource Link
Quality Improvement FrameworkGP QI Framework Reporting template (4MB)
QI GP clinic case study (1MB)
Medicare Benefits Scheme (MBS)MBS items – People with intellectual disability (495KB)
MBS services flowchart – Services Australia (880KB)
BB incentives factsheet – RACGP Nov2023
E-Learning – MBS Supporting diagnosis, assessment – Services Australia
Comprehensive Health Assessment Program (CHAP)CHAP – Adult Health Assessment – DoHAC
CHAP – Young Person (12-18 yrs) Health Assessment – DoHAC
CHAP Patient appointment request template
Video – Overarching: CHAP for people with intellectual disability
Video – How to complete Part 1 of the CHAP tool
Video – A GP lens on the CHAP tool
Video – Expert with lived experience talks about the CHAP tool
Further information available via annual health assessments for people with intellectual disability, and the Department of Health and Aged Care project to improve annual health assessments for people with intellectual disability.
Digital toolsPolar Walkthrough – Find Uncoded diagnoses (Disability) (pdf 163KB)
GoShare share factsheets and videos digitally (license required)
HealthPathways, for clinicians, log in details required
How to use HealthPathways to care for patients with an intellectual disability
Clinical templatesPharmacy Medications Template (Ex: antipsychotic med) (docx 1 MB)
Signs and Symptoms Tracker (docx 1 MB)
Signs and Symptoms Tracker (pdf 630 KB)
Administration guidesReception Staff Training – Training by Aunty Jane and Sharon
Reception Toolkit (pdf 1MB)
Add note to patient file – Best Practice (pdf 105KB)
Add note to patient file – Pracsoft (pdf 112KB)
Supporting Patients and CarersPreparing for your yearly Health Assessment (pdf 361KB)
Preparing for your Health Assessment checklist (pdf 80KB)
Your Health Assessment Easy Read guide (800KB)
About Me – Patient Profile (docx 102 KB)
Dental Information About Me – Patient Profile (docx 9MB)
Emergency Information About Me – Patient Profile (docx 110KB)
Other ResourcesCouncil for Intellectual Disability
GP flowchart for tips to support parents with intellectual disability during pregnancy and parenting (docx 6 MB)
Charter Of Rights for Parents and Carers with disabilities involved with Child Protection in Victoria
Tailorable Easy Read health letters – Council for Intellectual Disability
The SPIDAH Project further information



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