Colleen and Susannah Agnew are calling for better deaf awareness [BBC] A health trust has apologised to a deaf couple after hospital staff did not know what a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter ...
A Scots dad left hospital thinking he had HIV due to the lack of a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter. Richard MacQueen, 42, had been in hospital for pneumonia when the confusion occurred. He ...
A deaf man mistakenly believed he had tested positive for HIV because he couldn't get access to an interpreter in hospital. Richard MacQueen, a father-of-three from Dundee, was being treated in A&E ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
The NHS needs more British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters to avoid failing deaf patients, according to a report. Coroner Penelope Schofield wrote a "national shortage" of BSL interpreters and lack ...
A health trust has apologised to a deaf couple after hospital staff did not know what a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter was. Colleen Agnew's husband was taken to hospital recently after an ...