Our response to new guidance from the Department of Health and Social Care giving businesses the green light to sell hearing aids over the counter.
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Our response to ‘Reforming Elective Care for Patients’ and the importance of transforming audiology services
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Our Director for Insight and Policy, Victoria Boelman, explains RNID’s involvement in the inquiry and sets out what we are hoping to achieve.
In this blog RNID’s Policy and Campaigns Lead, Rob Geaney, looks at the items included in the King’s Speech which are relevant to RNID’s influencing work and sets out what it could mean for our people who are deaf or have a hearing loss.
Today, we saw the new Prime Ministers start his new term of office by knowingly excluding thousands of deaf people across the UK.
Our Loud and Clear manifesto sets out what we want to see from an incoming government. In this series we explain the issues we are campaigning on.
In this blog our Health Policy Advisor, Ruth MacLeod, sets out what RNID wants the next Government to prioritise: equal access to health and care services through strengthening of the Accessible Information Standard - the guidance on what providers must do to make services accessible.
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Prioritising equal...
Our Loud and Clear manifesto sets out what we want to see from an incoming government. In this series we explain the issues we are campaigning on.
In this blog our Head of Policy and Campaigns, Rob Geaney, demonstrates why people who are deaf or have hearing loss need better support to enter, remain and thrive in the workplace. He also outlines some initial steps that should be taken to create equal employment opportunities.
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At RNID, we’ve long campaigned for equal access to high quality NHS audiology services and hearing aids. This general election is an opportunity to get this message across to politicians.
We're telling the Government that the Deaf community must be given a voice in directing policy that impacts their lives.