Deaf and hard-of-hearing people’s access to primary health care services in North East Essex – A report for North East Essex Primary Care Trust; Helen Earis and Sally Reynolds, Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre, University College London (Royal Association for Deaf People, 2009)

PDF

http://www.royaldeaf.org.uk/images/stories/documents/marketing/Access_to_health_care_services.pdf

Communication and Perceptions of Health Care: Observations and Suggestions from Persons Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (Summaries for Patients, Annals of Internal Medicine)

Text

http://www.annals.org/content/140/5/I-68.full

Communicating about Health Care: Observations from Persons Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing: Lisa I. Iezzoni, MD, MSc; Bonnie L. O’Day, PhD; Mary Killeen, MA; and Heather Harker, MPA (Annals of Internal Medicine, March 2, 2004 vol. 140 no. 5 356-362)

Abstract with link to full text

http://www.annals.org/content/140/5/356.short#rel-summary-for-patients

Scottish Best Practice Standards: Social Work Services for Deaf, deafened, hard of hearing and deafblind people (Multi-Agency Taskforce, 2001)

http://www.scod.org.uk/pdf/otherpublications/deafstandards_lr.pdf

Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act (2002): Report – Extracts (Scottish Council on Deafness, 2008)

BSL & text

http://www.bsluptake.org.uk/?p=84

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British Sign Language & Linguistic Access Working Group (BSL&LAWG)

The British Sign Language and Linguistic Access Working Group (BSL&LAWG) has been convened and chaired by the Scottish Government since 2000. Its work comes under the remit of the Scottish Government’s Equality Unit. The Working Group consists of representatives from deaf organisations and Government officials. It enables the Government to discuss issues at the heart of linguistic access for deaf, deafblind and hard of hearing people. On its website there is a statement in BSL and English about Linguistic Access and Deaf People, as well as information about the work of the Group and issues affecting Deaf people. BSL&LAWG is a main partner organisation in BSL:UPTAKE.