title: Charter for disabled people using hospitals: a completed access audit cycle.
abstract: This completed audit cycle assessed access for disabled people to a district general hospital, in relation to standards laid down in the Royal College of Physicians Charter for Disabled People using Hospitals. The project was effective in demonstrating problems and implementing change to overcome them. It was also useful in raising disability awareness in the young investigators, who easily recognised the shortcomings in facilities for disabled people, and is proposed as a possible model for inclusion in medical undergraduate training programmes to raise disability awareness amongst a new generation of doctors.
authors.affiliation: Regional Rehabilitation Unit, Northwick Park Hospital, Middlesex.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Turner-Stokes
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Turner-Stokes
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Schon
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Turner-Stokes
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dayal
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Brier
mesh_terms: D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D004607:Elevators and Escalators; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction; D006769:Hospitals, General / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008131:London; D008330:Management Audit; D010299:Parking Facilities; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000193:education; D013689:Telephone; D014038:Toilet Facilities; D014910:Wheelchairs