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

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

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

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

5. 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 .

6. 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 .

7. 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 .

8. Thank You Paul Keeping Project Manager (Patient Equality Monitoring)
The NHS Centre for Equality & Human Rights Tel