Question follow-through · 105675
NHS: Hearing Impairment and Visual Impairment
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.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 14 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 19 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 20 Jan 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jan 2026
Question tabled
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.
19 Jan 2026
Target answer date
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20 Jan 2026
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Midwives: Recruitment
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