Accessibility in Healthcare with Anna Tylor, RNIB Chair of Trustees

In this podcast series, Spill The Tea with Womenkind Collective, we’ll dive into topics impacting our health and well-being, featuring extraordinary women who are raising their voices for positive change, and our guest today is not only raising her voice she is actually making the change. Anna Tylor is the chair of trustees for the Royal National Institute of Blind people (RNIB), she’s a fierce champion for equity in healthcare and an extraordinary advocate for accessibility. She’s an organisational and business expert, a trained mediator and author, blogger and fellow podcaster.    Born with Albinism, Anna was born partially sighted and experienced sight loss, at which point she was registered as certified severely sight impaired. This classification is also described as blind, though Anna would say she does have some 'useful sight'. She self-educated while raising a child, later working with major organisations to drive inclusivity, from the police force to banking, and even revolutionising access to audiobooks and digital libraries. More recently, Anna was diagnosed with breast cancer, she is now, two and a half years in remission. Her diagnosis exposed shocking gaps in healthcare accessibility for blind and partially sighted people, from vital information being inaccessible through to serious risks to patient safety. Her experience has made her a passionate voice for women advocating for themselves in healthcare and pushing for a more equitable system. Anna is knowledgeable and is a power-house for positivity and change, we loved spilling the tea with her   We discuss Google and Apple calendars wiping off not just the history of women but of men as well, we share your comments, there’s a new strutting WI (weekly invitation) and a little bit of inspiration to send you off with for the week. It’s an episode brimming with chat and all the usual sweary shenanigans! So, go and get the kettle on and settle in for our weekly collective chat while we spill the tea!      Anna Tylor: Book: The Blind Truth. Anna Tylor. Audio Book. 2020 W: www.theblindtruth.co.uk Podcast: The Blind Truth L: Anna Tylor X: @annatylor RNIB Book borrowing service - https://www.rnib.org.uk/living-with-sight-loss/independent-living/reading-and-books/rnib-bookshare/https://www.rnib.org.uk/living-with-sight-loss/independent-living/reading-and-books/rnib-bookshare/ If you’ve enjoyed our Podcast you may like to consider buying us a Ko-Fi at https://ko-fi.com/womenkindcollectivepodcast Here you can find updates, photos and some inclusive content we won’t post anywhere else and your donation will help us ensure we continue to bring you great quality of content and sound. You can watch the full unedited interview on our YouTube channel: Womenkind Collective. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.