Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 105675

NHS: Hearing Impairment and Visual Impairment

Tabled: 14 January 2026
Answered: 20 January 2026

Question

Helen Grant

ConservativeMaidstone and Malling

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which recommendations of the Government’s British Sign Language Advisory Board he will implement to ensure the NHS is accessible to deaf and blind people.

Answer

Dr Zubir Ahmed
Under the Equality Act 2010, health and care organisations have a legal duty to make changes in their approach and provision to ensure that services are as accessible to disabled people as they are for everybody else.All National Health Service organisati...

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