Hearing Impairment: Coronavirus

(asked on 18th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether Government guidance will be issued to clinicians in healthcare settings to ensure that guidance on face masks does not make services inaccessible to D/deaf people who rely on lipreading.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 20th July 2020

NHS England and NHS Improvement are aware of the issue and are working to provide solutions to address the needs of D/deaf people and people with complex needs including possible procurement of clear fronted masks.

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