Links to other sites about disabled people as healthcare professionals.
Organisations/links associated with the employment of disabled people
Organisations/links associated with supporting disabled students
General information about Disability Discrimination Act and Disability
Policy and Guidelines related to disability in health services
Discussion group and newsletter
If you find any errors please email David Wright.
Department for Work And Pensions: http://www.dwp.gov.uk/
The government department responsible for employment issues. Section for disabled people and carers at:http://www.dwp.gov.uk/lifeevent/discare/index.asp.
Employment Opportunities: http://www.opportunities.org.uk/
A national charity helping people with disabilities find and retain work. Support and advice is also available to employers on disability and employment issues.
Employers Forum on Disability: http://www.efd.org.uk/
The Employers' Forum on Disability is the employers' organisation focused on the issue of disability in the workplace. It is funded and managed by employers.
Enabling Work: http://www.enablingwork.co.uk/
Enabling Work is designed to assist people with disabilities find solutions to overcome barriers in the workplace.
Equality Direct: http://www.equalitydirect.org.uk/
The service is designed to give business managers easy access to authoritative advice on a wide range of equality issues.
Forum for OTs with disabilities: http://www.cot.co.uk/forum/intro.php
The occupational therapy Forum for OTs with disabilities website has been set up with the purpose of providing a contact point for occupational therapists, occupational therapy support workers, students and potential students with disabilities. The discussion forum is used to ask questions, discuss your experiences and to provide support and advice.
Jobability.com: http://www.jobability.com/
Job application site for disabled people and employers seeking to recruit disabled people.
JobcentrePlus: http://www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk/
Specific help for people with disability: http://www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk/cms.asp?Page=/Home/Customers/HelpForDisabledPeople
New Deal for Disabled People: http://www.newdeal.gov.uk/page.asp?SSN=employ&ID=VOLUNTARY#NDDIS/
Those people in receipt of health-related benefits, either through a disability or health condition, can get into work with the help of New Deal, and the programme is entirely voluntary.
Shaw Trust: http://www.shaw-trust.org.uk/
A national charity providing training and work opportunities for people with disability, ill health or other social circumstances.
Workable: http://www.workableuk.org
Website that works in partnership with employers to support disabled achievers in developing careers which reflect their abilities.
Work Injured Nurses Group (WING): go to: http://www.rcn.org.uk/ E-mail: wing@rcn.org.uk
Help to nurses who are suffering or have suffered illness or injury in the course of their work. Guidance on benefits, study days, information sheets and a UK-wide network for local support.
National Federation of ACCESS Centres: http://www.nfac.org.uk/
ACCESS Centres aim to facilitate access for disabled people to education, training, employment and personal development through services that include quality assessment and support in the use of assistive technology and/or specialised learning strategies.
National Union of Students: Advice for students with disabilities: http://www.nusonline.co.uk/content/advice.php?itm_sect=/nus/advice/disabilities/
SKILL - the National Bureau for Students with Disabilities: http://www.skill.org.uk
For general information about students with disabilities.
Has useful information for all students, including healthcare students.
336 Brixton Road
London
SW9 7AA
Tel & Minicom: 0171 978 9890 (1.30pm - 4.30pm Monday to Friday)
Fax: 0171 274 7840
Financial help for health care students: http://www.doh.gov.uk/hcsmain.htm
From here you can order paper copies or download PDF copies of the this document which provides information on bursary allowances and Disabled Students Allowance for health care students.
Making your teaching inclusive: http://www.open.ac.uk/inclusiveteaching/
This site has practical advice about teaching inclusively and will also help you meet the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act. It will give you an insight into what study is like for disabled students, and what you can do to make a difference.
University web sites: University web sites often give information on how students can obtain support as students on academic courses.
Wolverhampton University provides a map (with WWW links) of UK universities at: http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/ukinfo/uk.map.html
The UK Governments web pages on disability.
http://www.disability.gov.uk/dda
The UK Government's web site related to the DDA.
http://www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1995/1995050.htm
The DDA on the internet via Her Majesty's Stationary Office.
Disability Rights Commission: http://www.drc-uk.org
Provides information relating to the DDA, advice about rights and arbitration services.
Department of Trade and Industry: Equality and diversity: The way ahead: http://www.dti.gov.uk/er/equality/wayahead.htm
Towards Equality and Diversity consultation in spring 2002 contained the Government's proposals for taking forward the implementation of new anti-discrimination law under the Employment and Race Directives. A number of documents can be downloaded from this page, including issues around disability.
Special Educational Needs Disability Act 2001: http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts2001/20010010.htm
Amendment to the DDA to bring pre and post-16 education into the DDA.Back to top of the page
Disability: http://www.disability.gov.uk
Deals with a wide range of legal issues around the area of disability. The site has several links that should prove useful in finding out about the DDA, Disability Rights Commission, policies and programmes, and links for information and advice.
The Vital Connection: http://www.doh.gov.uk/nhsequality/nhsequalitiesframework.htm
Shows how NHS organisations can and must place the values of equity, fair treatment and social inclusion firmly at the centre of their policies and practices in relation to the workforce. Has links to a number of strategic documents.
Mental Health and Employment in the NHS: http://www.doh.gov.uk/healthyworkplaces
This guidance provides advice to NHS employers on the retention and future employment of people who have experienced or are experiencing mental health problems. The site includes PDF documents for downloading.
NHS Disability Information Site: http://www.doh.gov.uk/nhsequality/dissite.htm
A set of links relating to disability and the NHS.
Positively Diverse: http://www.doh.gov.uk/positivelydiverse
Positively Diverse is an integral part of the NHS' drive to ensure that all staff are valued, whatever their gender, sexuality, age, disability, or ethnic background.
Looking Beyond Labels: Widening the employment opportunities for disabled people in the New NHS: http://www.doh.gov.uk/nhsequaility/lookingbeyondlabels/index.htm
This report is to help ; ... develop and sustain good equal opportunities practices, which will enable disabled people to gain NHS jobs and to retain their active mainstream employment; ....
NHS North West, Diversity and Equality Group: http://www.positive-equality.co.uk/disability.asp
The +POSITIVEQUALITY= website is produced jointly by the NHS in the North West and TMP Worldwide. Prepared for Trusts requesting Training, it contains materials which can be adopted or adapted for local use in various formats, over one day, two half days, or be dipped into; for discussion topics in meetings with staff. This link takes you to the disability section (other sections can be found by clicking the 'home link').
Promoting Equality and Diversity in the NHS: A Guide for Board Members: http://www.publications.doh.gov.uk/equality/staff.htm
Positively Diverse provides a process by which NHS organisations can establish the connection between the communities it serves, the services provided and the people who deliver the service. It encourages local action to create an environment where differences between staff are seen as normal, welcome and adding value - be they of gender, age, racial origin, religion, sexual orientation, commitments outside work, or disabilities.
Strategic Human Resource Intelligence Networks: http://www.shrine.nhs.uk
SHRINE provides an essential support and networking mechanism for HR Directors, underpinning the delivery of the HR and modernisation agendas. Some information about employing people with disability can be found here.
HCP-Disability discussion group [Now closed - June '07, due to no support for discussion group]: HCP-Disability is a discussion group for those interested in the provision of access to health care education, and the professions, for people with disability. It was hosted by JiscMail.
Disabling Practice? Enabling Nurses: Disability Network Newsletter: This newsletter aims to act both as a contact point for nurses with an interest in disability and provide topical and relevant information about disability. It covers issues of caring for patients/clients and disabled health care professionals. For more information follow this link to the newsletter page.
psyclitforblind: a mailing-list which should provide an opportunity for blind people all over the world to exchange information about the availability of books and journals about psychology in a format that is accessible to blind people.
To subscribe send an e-mail to: psyclitforblind-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
List description (from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/psyclitforblind/):
This mailing-list should provide an opportunity for blind people all over the world to exchange information about the availability of books and journals about psychology in a format which is accessible to them. However, such availability should only be mentioned if the conversion of the book or journal into a format that is accessible to blind people has been permitted by the publisher. Furthermore an exchange of this literature between list members on- and off-list is not permitted. Every blind person who is interested in books or journals that are introduced as being accessible on this mailing-list should turn to the respective library, institution or publisher that defines the conditions under which they can be optained.Back to top of the page
Ability [See the ability not the disability]: http://www.ability.org/index1.html
The Ability Project aim is to show that quality of life is related to how free a person is to make their own choices and for a significant number of disabled people computer technology and the Internet holds the keys to those choices.
BenefitsandWork.co.uk: http://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/
This site offers a collection of links to welfare benefits and employment resources, plus sporadic articles about changes to the benefits system with downloadable guides to claiming benefits.
Center for Disability Issues and the Health Professions (CDIHP): http://www.westernu.edu/cdihp.html
An American site: Western University established the Center for Disability Issues and the Health Professions (CDIHP) in 1998. The Center goals include: improving the capabilities of health care providers to meet the growing needs of people with disabilities, increasing the number of qualified individuals with disabilities in the health professions, and empowering people with disabilities to become more vocal and active participants in their health care. There are also profiles of people with disabilities in the health professions - well worth a look.
Centre for Disability Studies: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/
CDS is an interdisciplinary centre for teaching and research in the field of disability studies at the University of Leeds (England). The Centre incorporates and develops the work of the Disability Research Unit (DRU) and aims to promote international excellence within the field.
Center on Self-determination: http://www.healthsciencefaculty.org/index.html
An American site: Oregon Health Sciences University's Center on Self-Determination is excited to announce a valuable resource for Health Science Educators. The Health Sciences Students with Disabilities Faculty Education Project is one of 22 projects funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education.
The site includes: Profiles, Resources and links to other sites (mostly American).
Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ): http://www.dsq-sds.org/
The journal of the Society for Disability Studies (SDS). It is a multidisciplinary and international journal of interest to social scientists, scholars in the humanities, disability rights advocates, creative writers, and others concerned with the issues of people with disabilities. It represents the full range of methods, epistemologies, perspectives, and content that compose multidisciplinary disability studies. DSQ is committed to developing theoretical and practical knowledge about disability and to promoting the full and equal participation of persons with disabilities in society.
Diversity in Health and Social Care [Journal]: http://www.radcliffe-oxford.com/journals/J18_Diversity_in_Health_and_Social_Care/
This journal is concerned with all aspects of diversity in health and social care. Diversity is seen as a very broad concept, embracing, for example, culture, belief, disability, gender and race and ethnicity, as well as underserved and marginalised populations. Diversity also extends to the wide variety of settings in which care takes place and the multidisciplinary nature of professional practice.
The Doctors' Support Network (DSN): http://www.dsn.org.uk/
" ... a warm, friendly self-help group for doctors with mental health problems .... The group believes that contact with and support from other doctors can help recovery. All doctors in the group have themselves been troubled at some stage in their lives.This group is therefore well placed to help those who are beginning the slow process of re-establishing themselves after a breakdown or other mental crisis.
The group also believes that appropriate support offered before a crisis develops helps to diffuse the situation
The Network is not group therapy, nor does it have other therapeutic aims, rather it seeks to reduce the isolation and stigma of mental health problems.".
Exceptional Nurse: http://www.exceptionalnurse.com/
An American site that offers useful and interesting information for nurses with disability. Exceptional Nurse is committed to inclusion of more people with disabilities in the nursing profession. By sharing information and resources, Exceptional Nurse hopes to facilitate inclusion of students with disabilities in nursing education programs and foster resilience and continued practice for nurses who are, or become, disabled.
Resource Guide for Psychology Graduate Students with Disabilities: http://www.apa.org/pi/cdip/resource/home.html
An American site that may offer some useful information for UK based students. The guide offers suggestions on issues related to educational training and professional development, presents an overview of the major federal disability laws, and offers practical advice on successfully navigating the classroom and campus.
Society for Disability Studies: http://www.uic.edu/orgs/sds/
Explores issues of disability and chronic illness from scholarly perspectives. Membership includes social scientists, health researchers, and humanities scholars as well as those active in the disability rights movement. SDS are committed to interdisciplinarity and to the full participation of disabled people in society. In addition to publishing Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ), SDS hold an annnual conference bringing together scholars from a broad spectrum of fields as well as community-based activists.
UK Self Help: http://www.ukselfhelp.info/
Need to find people of a like mind? This site lists 800 self help groups.
Mobility-Advisor.com: http://www.mobility-advisor.com/
Educational resource with articles on wheelchairs, scooters, accessories, wheel chair sports, disabled travel, transportation, and assistive technology to enhance the lives of individuals of all ages who need mobility assistance.
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