The Disabled Students’ Commission (DSC) has worked with Health Education England (HEE to produce a short joint statement and ambition, shaped by the lived experiences of disabled learners, trainees, and colleagues within the NHS.
This statement reflects the joint ambition of the DSC and HEE help develop and promote support for health learners to successfully transition into employment in the National Health Service (NHS) and wider health and social care economy.
“We are committed to helping to build a future workforce that is reflective of our society and is genuinely inclusive and values led. That does mean pro-actively seeking to ensure that there is no sense of stigma associated with disability.
Health learners must be able to declare they are disabled, both in education, as well as across training and learning environments and when they move into the NHS or health and social care workforce.”
