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Tanni Grey-Thompson: NHS leaves the disabled feeling ‘they don’t count (January 2023)

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When the Paralympian and television presenter Tanni Grey-Thompson found she was pregnant in 2001, she went to see her doctor. “The first thing I was offered was a termination,” she says, “because people like me shouldn’t be allowed to have children.” She changed hospitals and gave birth to Carys, but she says that for disabled people, “the relationship with the NHS can be quite mixed”.

Read the full article, published in the Times, via the link below.

Tanni Grey-Thompson: NHS leaves the disabled feeling ‘they don’t count (January 2023) https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/times-health-commission-tanni-grey-thompson-nhs-leaves-the-disabl…

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