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Equality Impact Assessment

The equality impact assessment (EQIA) was undertaken by the Scottish Government. It assesses the potential impacts of protected characteristics, socio-economic factors, and remote and rural factors on the use of Near Me video consulting. The key benefits and barriers were:

Benefits

  • Helps people attend appointments in a safer manner
  • Improved access through removing travel barriers
  • Reduced time off work or education to attend appointments
  • Supports carers, family members and translators to be involved

Barriers

  • People make assumptions about video appointments not being appropriate
  • Lack of a safe and confidential space for video appointments
  • Lack of inclusive communication materials
  • People who are digitally excluded for whatever reason

Read the full Equality Impact Assessment report.

Supporting evidence can be found here.

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