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Fair for All - Disability - Achieving Fair Access Guidance

This guidance is about improving access and removing the barriers which disabled people experience when they use NHS services. It brings together good advice from a wide range of sources and gives details of publications and useful organisations which staff can follow up when they need more detailed information.

Alternatively you can view individual sections of the guidance by visiting Guidance sections

Tip Cards

Fair for All – Disability and the Royal College of General Practitioners (Scotland) worked in partnership for some time to support GP Practices improve access to disabled people. In 2007, both organisations organised an awareness raising event for GPs and Practice Managers and most recently, worked on the production of tip cards.

The information in the tip cards have been adapted from the Fair for All – Disability guidance ‘Achieving Fair Access’ to assist all staff within NHSScotland improve access to NHS services for disabled people.

The tip cards are not meant to be a comprehensive resource on all disabilities but they will help staff with some quick pointers to meeting the individual needs of people with specific impairments.


Fair for All - Disability - Policy Map

A policy map designed by Fair for All - Disability intended to provide practitioners with information about disabled people accessing the NHS, relevant legislation which impacts upon disabled people’s access and finally presents some reports which promote good practice ideas and examples of change within the NHS with the aim of benefiting disabled people. The questionnaire is to ensure that the Policy Map is informative and accurate.