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Effective implementation will require health and social care organisations to make changes to policy, procedure, human behaviour and, where applicable, electronic systems.
Commissioners of NHS and publicly-funded adult social care must also meet this standard, in that they must make sure that contracts, frameworks and performance-management arrangements with provider bodies enable and promote the Standard’s requirements.
Successful implementation will lead to improved outcomes and experiences, and the provision of safer and more personalised care and services to those individuals who come within the Standard’s scope.
The Standard sets the framework and provides clear direction for a dramatic improvement in the ability of the NHS and adult social care system to meet the information and communication support needs of disabled people.
The ‘Summer 2016 update‘, which summarises what organisations are required to do to comply with the Accessible Information Standard.  The update is also available in easy read, audio, video and braille.
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