Browsing All posts tagged under »nhs«

Paul Hull: Making the NHS work for deaf people (BSL)

November 3, 2025 by

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For the past nine years, I’ve worked as a Health Improvement Specialist for the Deaf Community under the Equality and […]

8 in 10 children’s hearing services struggle to review hearing aid fittings on time as charity calls for new ‘specialist advisor’

April 26, 2023 by

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Eight in 10 paediatric audiology services in England have reported challenges in reviewing children fitted with hearing aids at a […]

British Deaf Association calls for mandatory BSL for NHS frontline staff after string of ‘heart-breaking’ communication failures

April 12, 2023 by

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Frontline NHS staff should have mandatory Level 1 British Sign Language (BSL) and Deaf Awareness training in order to prevent […]

Liam O’Dell: 2023 could be the year the UK Government finally accounts for its dire BSL access (BSL)

January 10, 2023 by

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Happy New Year. 2022 has been and gone, and it sure was quite the year for Deaf rights. We had […]

UK’s only mental health inpatient unit for Deaf children closed pending ‘review’, NHS Trust confirms (BSL)

December 21, 2022 by

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Corner House, the only mental health inpatient unit in the UK offering specialist support to Deaf children aged eight to […]

NHS Trust poster advertises BSL services with ASL alphabet

October 15, 2022 by

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A British Sign Language (BSL) interpreting agency has apologised after a poster for communication services at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals (WAH) […]

Birmingham NHS Trust fined over failure to obtain consent to treat Deaf patient

October 10, 2022 by

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University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) NHS Foundation Trust has had to pay £8,000 in fines after they failed to obtain consent […]

NHS hearing aids ‘available to everyone’ in UK after North Staffordshire drops controversial restrictions

September 26, 2022 by

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Free NHS hearing aids are now available to anyone in the UK who needs them, after Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent’s […]

Newspaper was wrong to say former NHS chairman is proposing charges for hearing aids

July 25, 2022 by

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An article in The Guardian wrongly claimed an ex-NHS chairman was suggesting people pay between £4 and £8 for hearing and […]

Deaf woman allegedly went five days without BSL interpreter in ‘worst hospital experience’ (with BSL video)

July 18, 2022 by

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The family of a 60-year-old Deaf woman have accused a London NHS Trust of violating her human rights, after she […]

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