<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gibson, Jeremy</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Coppinger, Lisa</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Handley-Cole, Emily</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Avoidable mortality: learning from the lives and deaths of people with a learning disability and autistic people</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">British Journal of General Practice</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2026</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2026-09-01 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">394-395</style></pages><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.3399/BJGP.2026.0415</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">76</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">770</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Established in England in 2017,1 Learning from Lives and Deaths — People with a Learning Disability and Autistic People (LeDeR) is a mortality programme designed to improve health care and reduce health inequalities by providing insights into factors that have contributed to premature and often avoidable deaths among people with a learning disability and autistic people. The latest LeDeR national report, published in July 2026,2 has important implications for GPs treating people with learning disabilities and autistic people.Each integrated care board (ICB) has a responsibility to have a process in place to ensure local sharing of relevant information to inform service improvements. LeDeR notifications of deaths of adults with a learning disability and autistic adults are completed via an online form.3 This takes about 10–15 minutes to complete. Although anyone can notify, few (0.6%) forms are completed by friends, family members, or carers; most are submitted by professionals who were involved in the person’s care.4 Each GP practice should have a process in place to notify the deaths of adults with a learning disability and autistic adults to LeDeR and to implement actions identified through LeDeR reviews.An initial LeDeR review is conducted for most people. This includes looking at GP records (or speaking to the GP) and contacting family members and other health and care agencies that were involved in …</style></abstract></record></records></xml>