This page has information about a range of health topics:
Table of Contents
NHS111 Guide (BSL)
This guide explains how to contact NHS111 if you or family member is ill.
Click below to access the NHS BSL 111 service
Out of Hours care
Late Night Chemist
Need medicine? Chemist closed? Find out which chemist is open late at night or during the holidays.
Mental health
CNWL runs mental health services in Milton Keynes and can provide an interpreter from RAD.
NHS 111 BSL
Contact NHS 111 if you or a family member is ill. NHS 111 is for health problems that are not urgent.
Local NHS BSL
Eye Clinic
The eye clinic is now in the Community Diagnostic Centre at Lloyds Court, Central Milton Keynes. If you need to book an appointment to visit the eye clinic, you can email to ask for a BSL interpreter.
Audiology
Audiology services at MKUH provide regular hearing aid updates for children and adults. You can email Audiology to confirm a BSL interpreter has been provided for your appointment.
Foot Care
MK Podiatry Service provides foot care. Your GP can refer you, or you can refer yourself. CNWL provides the service, and they can book a BSL interpreter for you.
Image credit: audiology image by Mark Paton
SignHealth BSL video library
SignHealth has a BSL video library on many health topics, from Asthma – Flu. You can choose to find out about the body or mind. You can click the buttons below to go to the website:
BSL Healthy Eating Guide
8 BSL videos on healthy eating by Public Health Scotland.
British Heart Foundation BSL videos on blood pressure, exercise and eating right
Diabetes UK BSL videos explain Diabetes and how to improve your health
📺BSL Videos on YouTube
If the BSL video you need is not on this page, you can also look at our MK Deaf Zone YouTube Channel. The channel has a collection of BSL video clips on dementia, cholesterol, diabetes, healthy eating and exercise. If you can’t find the video you need, contact us so we can find the BSL video for you.
🙌BSL interpreter for NHS appointments:
The Accessible Information Standard gives you the right to have a BSL interpreter at your GP, dentist*, optician’s* or hospital appointment.
Interpreters are provided by the following agencies:
- Language Empire: GP, dentists, opticians, and pharmacy (Bedford, Central Bedford, and Milton Keynes)
- AA Global: Milton Keynes Hospital
- R.A.D: Any NHS services provided by CNWL, such as foot care
*Interpreters are provided for NHS optician and dentist appointments only, not private healthcare appointments.
We have a list of qualified local BSL interpreters based in Milton Keynes.
Accessibility Advice for NHS care providers
Are you an NHS service provider?
If you provide services under an NHS contract you are legally bound to make reasonable adjustments for patients who have communication differences e.g. profoundly deaf people who use BSL. We have a range of free guides on supporting Deaf BSL patients under the Accessible Information Standard (AIS).
Our guides include additional information about Deaf culture and the role of interpreters. Please feel free to share our resources with your staff, particularly those who come into direct contact with patients.
If there is a resource you need and it is not listed here, please get in touch so we can find or create the resource you need to meet your Deaf patients’ needs.