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8 in 10 children’s hearing services struggle to review hearing aid fittings on time as charity calls for new ‘specialist advisor’

April 26, 2023 by

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Eight in 10 paediatric audiology services in England have reported challenges in reviewing children fitted with hearing aids at a […]

Liam O’Dell: Where’s the quality standard for our audiology services?

July 1, 2019 by

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How do we know that something isn’t working when we don’t have the opportunity to measure its success? Without a […]

Deaf News: Nine out of ten NHS commissioners don’t hold “bare minimum” information on hearing aid services

June 6, 2019 by

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Around 95% of NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in England do not have the “basic minimum pieces of information” needed […]

Rebecca Atkinson: Why the NHS is the greatest social leveller deaf and disabled people have

September 29, 2014 by

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Life is a bunch of straws. You pull some longs ones. You pull some short ones. Maybe you got born […]

Deaf News: NDCS says audiology services are failing deaf children in England

September 29, 2014 by

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The shocking state of England’s children’s audiology services is revealed in a report published today. 1000 parents were consulted for […]

Deaf News: Hearing Link urge Deaf adults to give their views on hearing services in England

July 25, 2014 by

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UK hearing loss charity Hearing Link is urging adults who have used NHS hearing care services to get hearing aids […]

Deaf News: Shocking 73-week wait for hearing aid reassessment in Wales is revealed

June 26, 2014 by

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Patients with hearing loss in one area of Wales are being forced to wait up to 73 weeks, or 17 […]

Deaf News: Plan to scrap free NHS hearing aids under fire

June 8, 2014 by

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North Staffordshire Clinical Commission Group (CCG) are considering scrapping providing hearing aids to people with a mild or moderate age-related […]

Tamsin Coates: Whatever equipment a deaf child uses, they are still deaf

April 15, 2014 by

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‘Is there any such thing as a deaf child anymore?’ This was a question I recently overhead, spoken by an […]

Rebekah Owens: “Are you trying to find Radio One?” My early life in hearing aids

January 13, 2014 by

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Throughout my school life I never used BSL, having been brought up in an era when the oral method was […]

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