CheckUP and Access for All have recently released a media release to help raise awareness and improve healthcare accessibility for people with disability. See some excerpts below, and view the full media release via the button link below.

Despite the findings of the Disability Royal Commission, Australians with disability are still facing significant barriers when accessing healthcare, with growing concern the healthcare system is still failing to adequately prepare workers to provide proper support.

Doctor, lawyer and disability advocate Dr Dinesh Palipana OAM lives with quadriplegia following a spinal cord injury and chaired the advisory group for CheckUP’s Access for All disability awareness training course.

Access for All is an online disability awareness course designed to help healthcare providers better understand and support people across a range of healthcare settings. Access for All is eligible for continuing professional development points for 35+ professions.

Dr Palipana said improving disability awareness across the healthcare workforce was critical to creating meaningful long-term change, with initiatives like Access for All helping close the training and awareness gap across the sector.

“Healthcare needs to put the humanity back into health,” Dr Palipana said.