Dharshana Sridhar, campaigns manager at the Spinal Injuries Association, said: “The system is not made for women’s health to start with and then it’s even worse for women with disabilities.<\/p>\n
“And then some of the barriers are actually entirely preventable, like inadequate equipment, like a lack of height adjustable examination beds, but none of this has been happening for decades.”<\/p>\n
Local screening teams can “offer practical support such as longer appointments at accessible sites and alternative clinic options” to help women with physical disabilities, the NHS spokesperson said. <\/p>\n
But Salter said she had “given up”, adding: “I don’t know what more I can do to access these services.”<\/p>\n
“I just think it’s very sad that we’re put in a position where we feel bad about ourselves because we can’t access the healthcare,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I’m grateful for what the NHS has done for me. They’ve showed me I can live again.<\/p>\n
“Life doesn’t end when you have a spinal cord injury but I want my life to continue and if I can’t have these checks for cancer then they’re not going to be able to catch it quick enough.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dharshana Sridhar, campaigns manager at the Spinal Injuries Association, said: “The system is not made for women’s health…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-679582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115853037556668692","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}