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<p>Compliance with the Accessible Information Standard is a legal duty: organisations
that provide National Health Service care or adult social care have been required
to meet the Standard since August 2016. Compliance with the Standard is also a requirement
of the NHS Standard Contract 2018/19.</p><p>Commissioners must actively support compliance
by organisations from which they commission services and they must also seek assurance
from providers with regard to compliance.</p><p>The Care Quality Commission, when
inspecting providers, also looks at how services implement the Accessible Information
Standard.</p>
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