Useful resources for deaf people with mental health needs

General information

Patient advice and liaison service (PALS)

As a service user, carer, or relative, you may not always know where to go for help or information. It can often be a worrying or confusing time, especially when you, or someone you know, is unwell. This is where the patient advice and liaison service (PALS) comes in.

How to access help in a crisis

The EmergencySMS (opens in new window) service and the Relay UK (opens in new window) service lets deaf, hard of hearing and speech impaired people in the UK send a text message to the UK 999 service where it will be passed to the police, ambulance, fire rescue, or coastguard.

Video call service to the emergency services, BSL999 can be accessed here (opens in new window).

An online British sign language interpreter through NHS111 services (opens in new window).

Useful information

• Information for Deaf or hard of hearing service users
• List of Deaf organisations and information

Useful British sign language links

• British society for mental health and deafness (opens in new window)
• Sign health (opens in new window)
• Deaf dementia research project (opens in new window)
• Top tips for communicating with Deaf people (opens in new window)

Links to partner organisations

• Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust (opens in new window)
• South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (opens in new window)

Page last reviewed: October 25, 2024
Next review due: October 25, 2025