If you have a learning disability or are autistic, it may be a health and care passport could be useful for you.
The health and care passport is designed to be a quick and easy way to give health and social care professionals more information about you to help them provide right care and treatment. It should help them understand what reasonable adjustments they should make for you and how to communicate effectively so your voice is always heard.
Completing your health and care passport
You can complete the health and care passport on your own or with support. You might want to talk to different people about what information to include about yourself in each section. Someone could complete the passport on your behalf if you are not able to complete it for yourself.
Keeping your health and care passport up to date
You will need to check the information in the passport is update from time to time. If your health needs haven’t changed very much you could check the passport once a year. For example, you could check and update your passport when you have your annual health check.
Using your health and care passport
You can show your health and care passport to anyone in health and care such as a GP receptionist, a doctor, a nurse, your dentist or ambulance crew.
The health and care passport has been designed to be read quickly. It has really important information about you and how to provide good, safe care for you.
The health and care passport can be used for planned appointments and in an emergency.
Read more here in this easy to ready leaflet:
PRN00983iii-health-and-care-passport-easy-read.pdf
If you would like one, here is a health and care passport you can use:
Or here: Health-Passport-April-2021