A recent (Alleged) poll of NHS deaf patients in the United Kingdom has been declared 'proof' by the British Deaf association of extensive BSL usage in Great Britain:
The British Deaf Association (BDA) welcomes the latest results from the GP Patient Survey, which confirms that there are just over 100,000 adult Deaf British Sign Language (BSL) users in England. At last a clear question has been included in a national survey which makes the important link between being Deaf and using BSL. This provides confirmation of what the BDA has long believed; that the number of Deaf people who use BSL in England is significantly higher than previous estimates.
This survey, conducted by Ipsos MORI and commissioned by the Department of Health, is the largest of its kind of the population other than the national Census carried out every 10 years.
Total and utter GARABAGE ! No one has asked deaf patients WHAT language or access they use in GP surgeries in the UK, not a single deaf person at my deaf club has been asked about preference or, is mostly able to GET access to GP surgeries, neither are preferences asked for at GP surgeries. These utterly misleading statistics, have been, and I put it bluntly, either been MANUFACTURED my Ipso-Mori polls, or GP's have not understood the survey. Curiously this 100,000 figure is exactly the same as the total amount of deaf people registered as such. I also asked my GP, who said he had not participated in any survey, had he done so, he would have first asked me my preference, and, permission to log that preference with mori, he did neither. If GP's do not KNOW what means we use how can they say we use them ?
Who did they ASK ? it wasn't deaf people. They asked GP's ? who are the health services WORST providers of access in the whole country to those with hearing loss ? the one sector that did another NHS survey confiding that the deaf were a pain in the ass to them and were the most difficult and exasperating patients they have ever dealt with ?
All deaf use sign ? here we go again ......... it is bad form the BDA is agreeing with this survey, if there were THAT many BSL people they would be snowed under with members, instead they are bereft and going broke, no link of course....! For Ipso-Mori read Hans Anderson.... for BDA read desperation.
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