Gateways guidance: 7.1 Encouraging disabled people to apply for medicine

It is unlawful to discriminate against a disabled person because of their disability:

• in the arrangements made for determining admissions
• in the terms of the offer to admit the disabled person
• by refusing or deliberately omitting to accept an application for admission.

Where applications are usually made by application form, it is best practice to offer to make application documentation available in a range of accessible formats. If the format is electronic, it should be accessible to a range of screen readers and assistive software.

A range of contact details should be given, for example including telephone, text phone and email options.