Written questions

Health Services: Visual Impairment

Commons · Question 37687 · Tabled 12 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 20 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Christine Jardine

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure blind and partially sighted people have access to health information in an accessible format.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 20 Mar 2025

Under the Equality Act 2010, health and social care organisations must make reasonable adjustments to ensure that disabled people are not disadvantaged. Since 2016, all National Health Service organisations and publicly funded social care providers are ex...