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
Conservative — Maidstone 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 AhmedUnder 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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