On 18th July over 200 people, most of them people with learning disabilities, braved the rain to come to Wolverhampton's Big Health Day to share their experiences of health services. Andy Howell, MP in the People's Parliament chaired the day alongside Wendy Ewins, Joint Commissioner.

All of the experiences and issues will be fed into Wolverhampton's Learning Disability Health Self-Assessment, which will be sent to the Strategic Health Authority in September. This self-assessment is a real opportunity to improve health care for people with learning disabilities. The main areas identified as needing improvements will be fed into the People's Parliament so it can monitor what real change happens for people with learning disabilities across the City.

Siraaj Nadat led Sandwell's Big Health day on 19th June 2012. This was an opportunity for local people with learning disabilites to get together with healthcare professionals and commissioners to decide what things need to get better for people's health and whats working really well. As there were so many things people wanted to do to improve health for people with learning disabilities, it was decided that the main priorities would go to a meeting of the People's Parliament on 3rd September, where the Parliament MPs and senior figures from around the borough will create a big action plan to make sure nothing gets lost.

We made a film of the Getting Ready event which was run before the Big Health Day.