It’s Doctor Time! is a campaign by Inclusion Australia to encourage more people with intellectual disability to have a Medicare-supported Annual Health Assessment. GPs sometimes call these Annual Health Assessments.
As a service provider, you can help the people you support to get their yearly health check.
As part of the It’s Doctor Time! campaign we have made the following resources for service providers and support workers of people with intellectual disability.
Resources
Documents:
- Social story template (Word)
- Social story template (PDF)
- What is It’s Doctor Time! – Easy Read Factsheet (PDF)
- What is a Yearly Health Check – Easy Read Factsheet (PDF)
- The Easy Read factsheets have also been translated into Arabic, Vietnamese and Simplified Chinese.
- General It’s Doctor Time! – Poster (PDF)
- Footy It’s Doctor Time! – Poster (PDF)
- Service provider policy statement (Word)
Conversation Cards:
We have made a set of Conversation Cards to help people with intellectual disability, their supporters and service providers talk about yearly health checks and what happens during the appointment
Videos:
It’s Doctor Time! for service providers and support workers
Media kit:
For a range of media kit resources to help you promote It’s Doctor Time! on your social media channels and website, visit: inclusionaustralia.org.au/resource/its-doctor-time-media-kit/
We have also made resources for people with intellectual disability, GPs and clinic staff, families and supporters and others. For more information about the campaign visit: inclusionaustralia.org.au/health-checks