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Peter White speaks to Olivia Butterworth, Head of Public Voice from NHS England, about its current consultation on a draft standard to ensure patients are provided with information from health professionals in their preferred method: braille, electronic, large print or in audio.

New Zealand has recently gone to the polls in a national election, and used telephone dictation voting as an option for visually impaired voters. We hear about the system from Neil Jarvis of the Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind.

We also speak to Natalie Curran, a seventeen-year-old voter from Glasgow, about her experience of voting in the Scottish Referendum.

Are you about to embark on your university career? We asked Saliha Rashid, who has recently graduated from Leeds university, to offer visually impaired freshers some words of wisdom.

Presenter: Peter White
Producer: Lee Kumuta.