NHS 'must improve services for the blind' Tom Pey, the director of policy for the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association (GDBA) has said.

NHS 'must improve services for the blind'

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"Speaking on BBC Radio 4's In Touch programme, he said: "We have carried out our own research this time and oddly enough we have gone to blind and partially sighted people to find out what is wrong.

"To give some of the figures: 20 per cent of blind people do not go out on their own because they have not received training to do it; even though 80 per cent of people have received an assessment, only 40 per cent have received the service as a result of it.

"Furthermore, the trauma that one goes through when finding out one is going to go blind is never treated by the NHS."



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