🧵(5/5) to meet these promises. And we will never stop campaigning for fairer access to healthcare for all deaf people." - @lucywarnes.bsky.social, Chief Executive at SignHealth

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🧵(4/5) We welcome both of these promises. But we want to make sure that they are delivered – because we know these could make an enormous impact on addressing the health inequalities that deaf people experience. We will keep pushing the Government and the NHS...

🧵(3/5) If you are a deaf BSL user, this will be recorded on your Single Patient Record and visible to every healthcare professional you meet.
2 - The Government have also said that all appointments and medications will be managed via the NHS App and this will be BSL accessible.

🧵(2/5) all your medical information will be accessible in one place. This is the first time the NHS have ever done this. This is an important move, because the Government say that patients will not have to keep telling healthcare staff that they are deaf over and over again...