Examining a community model of epilepsy care for people with learning disabilities.

Purpose: To assess the use of specialised medical epilepsy services by people with learning disabilities (LD) and epilepsy in a community healthcare setting, to compare medical epilepsy care in this group to current management guidelines, and to contrast important outcomes with those achieved in different healthcare settings.

Methods: Postal survey with a carer completed questionnaire addressed to all adults with epilepsy registered on an LD register in Sheffield, UK (n=442).

Results: An analysis based on 225 returned questionnaires revealed that 22.