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<p>Departmental publications are available in British Sign Language (BSL) on request.
The Department does not provide a correspondence service in BSL, nor has it received
any requests for such a service.</p><p> </p><p>General practitioners and other health
and care professionals have a legal duty to comply with the Accessible Information
Standard, which sets out a series of requirements that organisations providing National
Health Service care or publicly funded social care in England must follow. These include
arranging for communication support, including support to BSL users, where this is
needed for effective communication. The Standard does not direct how such support
should be arranged or funded, as this is a matter for local decision.</p>
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