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  •   Home > News > Health & Safety

    Calls for the Government to push forward with funded health checks for intellectually disabled people - now it's got the research to back it

    Calls for the Government to push forward with funded health checks for intellectually disabled people - now it's got the research to back it


    A New Zealand Medical Journal study's found the annual check-ups would cost 13-million dollars a year.

    But it'd save 16-million-dollars in health care costs, from a community that's three times more likely to be hospitalised for avoidable conditions.

    IHC spokesperson Shara Turner says this has been an outstanding issue for a long time.

    She says there was a 2003 government report, finding it needed to address the health neglect intellectually disabled people face in New Zealand.

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