Adult Learning Disabilities - Annual Health Checks Implementation Group: February 2026

Attendees and apologies

SG Officials
Representative for NHS Borders
Representative for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde 
Representative for NHS Grampian
Representative for NHS Tayside
Representative for NHS Lothian
Representative for NHS Shetland
Representative for NHS North Highland
Representative for NHS Highland Argyll and Bute
Representative for NHS Lanarkshire

Apologies:
Representative for NHS NES
Representative for NHS Forth Valley
Representative for NHS Wester Isles

Items and actions

The Chair welcomed everyone to the meeting.

Updates from Scottish Government

The Chair updated members about 3 new learning disability pages which are now live on NHS Inform page. This includes a specific page on Annual Health Checks.

The group then went on to discuss the upcoming pre-election period arrangements, which commences as of Thursday 26 27 March. It was agreed that there would be no meeting taking place in April.

Data update 

The group were given an update on a piece of work undertaken by National Services Scotland to review the list of Learning Disability codes to extract data. The list of codes will be shared with members.

Following from a previous request from SG for Health Boards to provide case studies which demonstrate the impact of annual health checks, officials are still looking for more case studies. Support was offered in completing the case study template.

AHC paperwork review – feedback from Boards

The Chair gave the group an update on the work of the short-life working group (SLWG) which has been set up to undertake a formal review of the delivery of annual health checks paperwork. The SLWG had some questions that they required feedback on from the National Implementation Group.  The Group went through the questions and it was agreed that members were to provide feedback before the next meeting on Thursday 19 March.

Any other business

The Chair thanked Boards for providing annual health check data performance data for quarter 3. Arrangements will be shared in due course with the final data collection at the end of the year.

The Group then went on to discuss  shadowing opportunities across health boards and information was shared about the Peer Support Group for LD Health Checks. A link to the meeting will be shared amongst members.

Date of next meeting 

The next meeting will take place on Thursday 19 March 2026.