Trust Board Febuary 2010 - Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals

SWBTB (2/10) 037 (d)
Appendix B
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals
NHS Trust
Equality Impact Assessment
Stage 3
Full Assessment Form
Having completed the Initial EIA Screening Form (Appendix A) which identified a negative
or potential adverse impact, you are required to complete this Full Assessment form. This
will involve you questioning aspects of a proposed/existing service or policy and
forecasting the likely effect on different groups.
Step 1) What is the impact?
You may want to mention the environment, privacy and dignity, language, transport,
access, signage, local demography…
There is a possibility patients may not be fully involved in the consent process and may not give a
fully informed consent to a procedure due to a failure to provide adequate information in a way
they can access
1a Identify the Equality group(s) that will be affected by the adverse Impact:
Ethnicity Gender Transgender Age Disability Religion or belief Sexual Orientation Other
x x x
1b Think about other socially excluded groups or communities e.g. rural community,
carers, areas of deprivation, low literacy skills.
The main barriers to engaging in the process are not understanding the process (due to youth/old
age, disability, language barriers). This may affect some patients within these groups but belonging
to these groups would not be an issue per se.
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