Information Gathering and the Disability Equality Duty NHS Wales Centre for Equality & Human Rights 2006

* DRC guidance on info gathering Overview * DRC guidance on info gathering * Potential monitoring arrangements * Suggested next steps and timescales

DRC Guidance – key themes * Involving disabled people * Categories of Disability * Methods of info gathering * What to measure – outcomes & barriers * What to measure – employment & service .

DRC Guidance – key themes (contd.) * Measuring the success of info gathering * Optimising the input of disabled people * Analysis of data * Targets * Monitoring Forms .

Monitoring Arrangements - issues * Involving disabled employees / patients in agreeing criteria * Staff monitoring and ESR * Patient Monitoring and Local PAS Systems * Patient Monitoring and National datasets .

Next Steps & Timescales 1. Agree info to be gathered with disabled people 2. Agree aims and obs, targets & action plan 3. Agree categories for monitoring forms 4. Build these into IM&T systems .

Next Steps & Timescales (contd.) 5. Communicate fully within your organisation 6. Agree implementation plan 7. Train employees as appropriate 8. Pilot and evaluate 9. Mainstream .

Thank You Paul Keeping Project Manager (Patient Equality Monitoring) The NHS Centre for Equality & Human Rights Tel 07815 578694 email paul.keeping@cehr.wales.nhs.uk www.wales.nhs.uk/equality