Sight loss campaigners deliver letter to health secretary

Wes Streeting MP was urged to address the challenges faced by people with communication needs who frequently receive inaccessible health and care information.

Earlier this month, sight loss campaigners delivered a mock hospital appointment letter to the Department of Health and Social Care as part of the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB)’s ‘My Info My Way’ campaign.

The letter was missing vital information required to attend the appointment, to demonstrate the barriers many patients with sight loss come up against and which undermine their independence, privacy and dignity.  

Anna Tylor, RNIB’s chair of trustees, stated: ‘Our message is simple - people with communication needs have a legal right to accessible health information and communications, and not receiving it puts our health and wellbeing at risk.’