Cancer screening support for people with a learning disability

Further information about cancer screening can be found on our Cancer Screening page.

Social care providers guidance and resource pack

The social care providers guidance and resource pack provides tools to carers to enable them to support people with a learning disability to access cancer screening.

A social care guidance and resource pack for providers of learning disability services

 

Patient Screening Information – Easy Read Formats

 

Public Health England have produced easy read patient information for the following cancer screening programmes.

To access a copy please click on the appropriate programme from the list below:

 

Breast

Bowel

Cervical

Bowel

Bowel screening flagging for people with a learning disability

The How to guide describes how to set up the bowel screening flagging project. It gives a clear process to follow and discusses challenges and limitations. This document includes the updated consent to share information advice.

How to guide: Improving bowel cancer screening for people with a learning disability using flagging

Breast

Cancer Screening – Support for people with a Learning Disability

Public Health England have recently released national guidance to help breast screening providers support women with a learning disability access their services.

This blog post highlights this guidance and provides links to easy guides for breast screening and cervical screening for women with a learning disability: Supporting women with learning disabilities to access breast screening

Cervical

Cervical Screening with Learning Disability – Support Materials for Sample Takers

Resources which have been developed to support women with a learning disability accessing cervical screening