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The Mental Health Foundation and Sign the National Society for Mental Health and Deafness, have produced a service provider information pack to raise awareness of the basic rights of deaf people when receiving mental health services. This jointly developed pack gives those commissioning and providing mental health services essential up to date information on mental health and deafness in order to make services more inclusive. The pack has been endorsed by Rosie Winterton MP, Minister of State for Health Services, and Liam Byrne MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Care Services:

“We very much welcome the publication of this service providers’ guide to Mental Health and Deafness. The pack sets out clearly the kind of things that Deaf and deafened people should realistically expect from services and also contains a very useful briefing on the relationship between mental health and deafness. We commend this pack to you and encourage all NHS organisations to endorse the Deaf Mental Health Charter.”

[Source: www.mentalhealth.org.uk/page.cfm?pagecode=PISDAPDC]