Question follow-through · 99569
NHS: Hearing Impairment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure greater deaf awareness among frontline NHS staff.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 12 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 22 Dec 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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- Department of Health and Social Care: Sign Language · 15 Jan 2026
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
12 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure greater deaf awareness among frontline NHS staff.
16 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Dec 2025
Answer published
Since 2016, all National Health Service organisations and publicly funded social care providers have been expected to meet the Accessible Information Standard (AIS), which details the approach to supporting the information and communication support needs ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Department of Health and Social Care: Sign Language
15 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the answer of 24 November 2025 to question 91186, what steps he will take to engage with BSL signers to assess the suitability of products which use Artificial Intelligence approaches t