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Equality and Diversity Exam SCENARIO 1 1 Difficulty gaining access to discrimination in case of physical disability

   

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Equality and Diversity Exam

Table of ContentsSCENARIO 1...................................................................................................................................1Difficulty gaining access could this be discrimination...........................................................1Law protects those with physical disability against discrimination?.....................................1Removal of discrimination in this case..................................................................................1Discrimination........................................................................................................................1Discrimination always deliberate...........................................................................................2SCENARIO 2...................................................................................................................................2Diversity.................................................................................................................................2Term that can be given when employer is treating employees alike......................................2Nine protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010..................................................2SCENARIO 3...................................................................................................................................3Refer to Mr G with colleagues as a female............................................................................3Acceptable to admit him into a female bay............................................................................3Ensure that Mr G receives inclusive care...............................................................................3REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

SCENARIO 1Difficulty gaining access could this be discriminationConsidering the given case and based on findings on Equality Act, 2010, there is a termcalled reasonable adjustments, where it is the responsibility of hospital or healthcare professionalto remove all the physical barriers and to provide extra support for a disabled person. In thiscase, it will be required for outpatient setting to reconstruct the doorway, for removal of thediscrimination, which took place.Law protects those with physical disability against discrimination?Equality Act, 2010, which has been developed by United Kingdom's government can beconsidered as the law, that can protect against discrimination in present case (lein, 2016). Thiscould be understood with a good example of given case, where patients on wheelchair weregoing through the issue of passing by doorway. Under Equality Act, 2010, it states thatreasonable adjustments are required to be made in order to remove the discrimination that wastaking place.Removal of discrimination in this caseEfforts must be made to correct this fault. Size of doorway can be altered and increasedby re-constructing it. If construction is such that no alterations are possible then in this case,Some other alternative option must be developed by concerned authorities like treatment, tests orservices that are being done on the other side of the doorway could be provided to the patient onwheelchair on their respective site or place (Martínez Palacios, 2016).DiscriminationDiscrimination can be defined as an act of prejudicial treatment given to a particularindividual or a group considering the grounds of age, sex or race. This can also include unfair orunequal treatment given to a person. Basically, there are four types of discrimination and theseare: racial, sex/gender, disability and age discrimination. In the given case, disabilitydiscrimination took place, as patients on wheelchair were not able to reach to the other section ofdoorway for treatment or for any other activities, which was related to treatment.1

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