Charity warns health shake-up will be bad news for Deaf people

SignHealth has warned the government that their proposed changes to the health services will be a disaster for Deaf people.

The government is planning to pass budgets to GPs. But few GPs have enough Deaf patients to make them a priority.

Chief Executive Steve Powell said, ""Deaf people get a poor service from the NHS. The Deaf population is scattered across the country. In every area they are a minority group that is not big enough to matter to PCTs. If GPs are given budgets they will be responsible for even smaller areas - where Deaf patients will count for nothing."

Read the press release here.

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