People with intellectual disability are still dying decades earlier than other people.

People with intellectual disability are still much more likely to be hospitalised for preventable causes.

Doctors are still not getting the essential training to treat people with intellectual disability.

We know how to solve these problems … So why are they still happening?

In 2023, the Disability Royal Commission reported on the ongoing systemic neglect facing people with intellectual disability in the healthcare system.

Luckily, we have solutions. The Federal Government has already funded the development of the National Roadmap for Improving the Health of People with Intellectual Disability (‘the Roadmap’), released in 2021.

The Roadmap sets out key steps needed to fix healthcare for people with intellectual disability including things like longer GP consultations and better training for healthcare professionals.

Not nearly enough of the key steps have been taken, and people with intellectual disability are still dying due to inadequate healthcare.

The Roadmap identified 72 short-term ‘actions’ to complete within 3 years. But so far, only 9 of them have been completed.

Health care professionals don’t understand how to include and support people with intellectual disabilities in their own healthcare.

Intellectual disability is not a medical condition.

We know how to fix healthcare for people with intellectual disability.

We urgently need to implement these solutions.

Lives depend on it.

This is a joint campaign of

• Council for Intellectual Disability
• Inclusion Australia

• Down Syndrome Australia
• Queensland Centre of Excellence in Autism and Intellectual Disability Health
• Australian Association of Developmental Disability Medicine.