No / Regulatory bodies governing health professions and professional education set
clear expectations regarding fitness to practise. Within the UK, the Equality Act,
2010, poses a challenge to regulators, educators and employers to ensure that
people are not excluded on the basis of disability and to facilitate inclusion.
This research took a mixed methods approach to exploring the tensions between
Higher Education providers and placement providers in the health sector.
Disabled and nondisabled students and health professionals engaged in semistructured
interviews and a survey in order to explore their beliefs and
experiences. The findings suggest that applying equality legislation within health
settings may be particularly difficult and that ¿disability¿ is an ambiguous and
multifaceted concept. Whilst small in scale, the findings have given a voice to a
professional group who are underrepresented in research and have raised a
number of important issues that merit discussion and further scrutiny.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/5520 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | Hargreaves, J., Dearnley, Christine A., Walker, Stuart A., Walker, L. |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, Published version |
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