Mental Health Services: Hearing Impairment

(asked on 12th June 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking with regard to those Clinical Commissioning Groups that have not funded Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services for deaf people.


Answered by
Earl Howe Portrait
Earl Howe
Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
This question was answered on 24th June 2014

The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme is now the responsibility of individual clinical commissioning groups (CCGs); however over £400 million is being invested over the spending review period to make a choice of psychological therapies available for those who need them in all parts of England.

Section 20 of the Equality Act 2010 requires service providers and CCGs to make ‘reasonable adjustments' so that disabled people are not placed at a ‘substantial disadvantage' compared to non-disabled people, which would include in the provision of psychological therapies to deaf people.

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