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If you go into hospital for treatment you use a healthcare passport to write down important things about you and your needs.

This health passport has been produced by East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust but it can be used by anyone, anywhere.

Download it from their website (click on the cover on their web page to download it).

The Elfrida Society have lots of useful easy read leaflets about health and healthy living. You do have to pay a small amount for them and they are sent to you by post.

Find our more on their website.

This booklet from the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities gives  tips about how to use the NHS and where to get more information.

Download it from their website.

This leaflet is about going to the dentist. What will happen and what you can do if you are not happy with your treatment. It is produced by the General Dental Council.

Download it from their website.

This leaflet is about what to do if you have congential heart disease.

Congenital heart disease is when you are born with something wrong with your heart.

People who have this need lots of advice, support and care.

Download the leaflet.

There is an easy read leaflet about asthma from Asthma UK. Open it, or download it.

They have more easy read information on their website.

The Epilepsy Society has easy read information about epilepsy.

You can find out about it on their website.

The Cheshire and Wirral NHS Partnership Trust have a lot of easy read information about health.

Much of it will be useful to people wherever they live - information about sexual health, your blood pressure, and about dementia, for example.

Find out more on their website.

SeeAbility help people understand how to look after their eyesight.

They have a lot of easy read information about eye care on their website.

Macmillan Cancer Support and CHANGE have created easy read booklets about cancer treatment and care. There are booklets for people with learning disabilities and for family carers.

Find out more on their website.

This leaflet is called Questions to ask when you go to the doctor or to a hospital.

Open it or download it.

NHS Health Check

This leaflet tells you what happens when you have a health check.

Open it or download it.

 

The Clear Thoughts project produced this easy read checklist about your mental health. Open it or download it.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists - they are people who help with mental health problems - produced this easy read leaflet about learning disabilities and mental health. Open it or download it.