Deaf people's access to healthcare - my rather long thoughts

As a deaf person with additional impairments and more hospital experience (including 47 general anaesthetics to my name) than I can shake a stick as I thought it was time I wrote something about my experiences in the NHS as a deaf adult.

To keep this blogpost shorter than War and Peace itself and low on the rantiness factor I shall create some jumps to the separate sections I've written about.

Jump to Recent articles and research into deaf people's access to healthcare
Jump to Patient contacting GPs and hospitals etc
Jump to Reception services upon arrival
Jump to Alerting people to appointment slots
Jump to Consultation spaces being noisy and disrupted
Jump to Bad and good experiences with clinical and medical staff
Jump to Experiences of using my partner as communication support and why I haven't tried professionals
Jump to Some conclusions and thoughts
( Cut for length )