Accessible Home Testing

We have Been Working with Some Great People to Make Bowel Cancer Screening More Accessible

Our #MakeHealthAccessible campaign focuses on delivering accessible health information and accessible at home health tests. Currently a number of at home tests provided by the NHS are not fully accessible to blind and partially sighted people. These include cancer screening, diabetes tests and even pregnancy. This undermines the independence of blind and partially sighted people, but also exposes them to greater risk of long term health issues due to an inability to access regular and routine testing.

Read more about the FIT aid accessible home test here

Take Action on Accessible Home Testing

Inaccessible health tests mean blind and partially sighted people risk detecting symptoms late and being at greater risk of serious illness than everyone else. This same situation means the NHS must pay more to treat severe illness that should have been avoided. We’re asking the government to launch a pan-disability taskforce to fix this problem and deliver an action plan to #MakeHealthAccessible.

Top image shows hands closing a FIT (Faecal Immunochemical Test) bottle with braille on the FIT aid tool. The hands slide the stick and tube down the accessible channel. Top left features TPT logo and the words ‘We’ve been working with some great people to make bowel cancer screening more accessible’. Bottom image shows a person inserting a sample stick into a container, using the specially designed stand provided. A QR code is on the FIT aid tool. Bottom shows logos of NHS England, Mast Group, and RNIB.

Help us by writing to your MP.

  • Share your experience of at-home tests

    We still need your input! Lived experience is a powerful tool and we want to use your voices to make the case for at-home medical tests to be made accessible, while also ensuring the in-surgery awareness to help people with sight loss doesn’t disappear as new devices are invented. We ask you to complete our survey to hammer this point home. Your feedback will help us prove the importance of this issue, describe the challenges you face with specific test types and paint an accurate, current picture of BPS people’s experiences with testing at home.

    Complete our survey

Health and Fitness

Blind and partially sighted people face numerous challenges in maintaining their health and well-being.

Find out more about 'Health and Fitness'

The Accessible Information Standard (AIS)

Find out more about our campaign work around better compliance and understanding of the AIS.

Find out more about 'The Accessible Information Standard (AIS)'

Accessible Bowel Cancer Screening Test

Thousands of people with sight loss in England will find it easier to participate in life-saving bowel cancer screening thanks to a new specially designed NHS tool. People who are blind or partially sighted will be offered a specially designed tool to help with independently completing Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT)…

Find out more about 'Accessible Bowel Cancer Screening Test'
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