WMAS supports Deaf Awareness Week
WEST Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) is supporting Deaf Awareness Week to challenge misconceptions about being deaf and provide practical advice on communicating with people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Two members of staff, Stacey Powell and Josh Dovey, have shared their personal experiences of working in frontline ambulance roles while being deaf. Stacey, a supervisor in the 999 Emergency Operations Centre has been partially deaf since childhood and has worn bilateral hearing aids for the past three…