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Equality Impact Assessment: A new ambition for stroke - a national strategy

This Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) is made in relation to the National Stroke Strategy now being implemented

This EIA, like all others, considers the possible impact of the new strategy on people according to their age, disability, race, religion and beliefs, gender and sexual orientation. Each of these groups is an important consideration in the development of stroke services since good impacts are even more valuable when they promote equality. The EIA therefore aims to:

• assess whether the new strategy is likely to have any adverse effects on any of these groups; and
• alert commissioners and service providers of health and social care of the need to monitor the strategy's impact on these groups and make changes to mitigate any inequality.

• Download National Stroke Strategy equality impact assessment (PDF, 82K)