Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 37687

Health Services: Visual Impairment

Tabled: 12 March 2025

Answered: 20 March 2025

Question

Christine Jardine

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure blind and partially sighted people have access to health information in an accessible format.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock

Under the Equality Act 2010, health and social care organisations must make reasonable adjustments to ensure that disabled people are not disadvantaged. Since 2016, all National Health Service organisations and publicly funded social care providers are ex...

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