Members News

NHS England wants to know what you think about its plans to make health and social care information accessible. A consultation document [PDF] and survey are now available online. Patients, service users and carers, health and care professionals and organisations, voluntary organisations, patient groups and communication professionals are encouraged to give their views. We will […]

At this year’s Annual General Meeting, three Trustees will have completed their first term of three years.  Caroline Player is standing down, but Michael Quinlan (Action on Hearing Loss) and Bencie Woll (DCAL) have indicated that they are happy to put their names forward for a further term of three years.  Brian Archbold (formerly of […]

Norman Lamb, Minister for Care and Support, has pledged to support and promote a new Deaf-Aware Care quality mark for residential care homes launched by RAD and [sonus]. At a packed meeting at the House of Commons yesterday, Mr Lamb said, “I give you a complete assurance that I will do anything I can to […]

Ofcom is reviewing of the quality of subtitling provision in the UK, and have asked Action on Hearing Loss to gather the experiences of people who rely on subtitles for watching television. They have recently launched a major survey, open until 31 August. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Qualitysubtitlessurvey See here for further details.

New DCAL Briefing Sheet available on dementia: Deaf people in the British Sign Language (BSL) community have had a long struggle to access dementia diagnosis and support, with serious implications for quality of life and treatment. Now, for the first time,

  Many of you will hear good and bad things about European Union, especially with economic crisis in Greece and Eurozone problems. In the UK