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"Are you registered as disabled?"

Savvy_Sue · 2020-12-21 18:06:26

I was registering for a health programme which is part of the NHS this afternoon. Along with the usual questions for equalities monitoring, I was somewhat taken aback to be asked "are you registered as disabled?" I asked what was meant, and I explained that there is no longer a national register of disabled people, and…

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Fruitcake Posts: 59,527 Forumite

28 December 2020 at 7:22PM edited 28 December 2020 at 7:24PM

I help out on the Parking forum and quite often people will say they are registered disabled because they have a blue badge, but the regulars always politely point out that this country no longer has a register of disabled people, (and that the blue badge scheme does not apply on private land).

If members of the general public do not know there is no longer a register, then I am not surprised certain companies and organisations do not know about it either, but I am surprised an NHS employee didn't know.

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