Needs of the BSL (British Sign Language) community within healthcare

News - 24 February 2025

Addressing the needs of British Sign Language users in South Yorkshire.
We have been working with other healthcare partners in South Yorkshire and with our Deaf British Sign Language (BSL) Using Community to hear more about how health and care services need to improve to meet their needs. A (subtitled) video using BSL has now been produced explaining how we are moving forwards.

The following six-minute video addresses many of the needs which have been identified - and what local health services have been doing to begin to solve the problems.      

https://youtu.be/b7Rn3T5RTio

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