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Health Services for the Deaf Task Group - final report

Meeting: 18/06/2020 - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Item 6)

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Report of the Democratic Services Officer and Health Services for the Deaf Task Group

 

The report presents the Health Services for the Deaf Task Group’s final report.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The scrutiny committee received the final report of the Health Services for the Deaf Task Group.  This item had also been on the agenda of the previous Overview and Scrutiny Committee, cancelled due to the coronavirus.  Councillor Saffery, the task group’s Chair, explained the work carried out by the task group and how councillors had reached their recommendations.

 

Members welcomed the task group’s final report which had observed the concerns of the deaf community well and drawn out a useful set of conclusions and recommendations.  The Chair underlined her commitment, as the council’s representative, to ensuring that these would be taken up fully by Hertfordshire County Council’s Health Scrutiny Committee.

 

Councillor Mauthoor regretted that there had been no Labour representation on the task group.  She questioned whether any particular impacts had been found on the BAME community.  Councillor Saffery advised that this had not become apparent during the task group’s work, but that a focus on the BAME community should be a strand of investigation by the county council when it carried out its work.

 

There followed a discussion about the task group’s final recommendation: “WHHT should consider adding ‘welcome’ in a written representation of BSL to the signage outside the main entrance to Watford General Hospital.”  It was agreed that the wording should be strengthened; the local hospital was located within the borough and should set an example in its recognition of the deaf community.

 

The chair thanked everyone who had been involved in the task group and Councillor Saffery for chairing discussions. 

            

RESOLVED –

 

that the final report and recommendations of the Health Services for the Deaf Task Group be agreed and forwarded to Hertfordshire County Council’s Health Scrutiny Committee,  subject to strengthening recommendation 10.

 

Action: Senior Democratic Services Officer


 

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