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Updates
- Government confirms commitment to implementing the Action Plan on Hearing Loss
- NHSE produce new guide on planning for hearing loss in Joint Strategic Needs Assessments
- NICE Issue Final Guidance on Cochlear Implant criteria
- New proposal for a College of Audiology – join the discussion
- Hundreds more children and adults eligible for cochlear implants on the NHS
- What Works Guides on Hearing Loss
- NICE guideline on assessment and management of adult hearing loss
- Hearing aids change lives and improve health-New Research published by Cochrane confirms the effectiveness of Hearing Aids
- World Health Assembly Resolution on Hearing Loss 30th of May
- Government Confirms that CCG’s should use new Commissioning Framework when reviewing services
- CCG’s listen to evidence on the importance of not restricting access to hearing aids on the NHS
- Rationing of Hearing Aids Challenged
- New NHS England Commissioning Framework for Hearing Loss services welcomed by Alliance
- King’s Fund event examines improvements in hearing services
- Alliance calls for adult hearing screening
- Implementing the Government’s Action Plan on Hearing Loss
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CCG’s listen to evidence on the importance of not restricting access to hearing aids on the NHS
The Alliance has welcomed the decision made by the NHS Redditch and Bromsgrove Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), NHS Wyre Forest CCG and NHS South Worcestershire CCG not to restrict access to hearing aids for local people across Worcestershire. The decision … Continue reading
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Rationing of Hearing Aids Challenged
On 1 October 2015 North Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) brought into force its policy to end hearing aid provision for people with mild hearing loss and to severely restrict access to hearing aids for people with moderate hearing loss, … Continue reading
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New NHS England Commissioning Framework for Hearing Loss services welcomed by Alliance
The new National Commissioning Framework for Hearing Loss Services was launched by NHS England’s Chief Scientific Officer for England, Professor Sue Hill OBE, at the House of Commons on Tuesday 19th of July. The Framework provides a comprehensive guide for … Continue reading
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King’s Fund event examines improvements in hearing services
The Hearing Loss and Deafness Alliance is hosting a workshop at The King’s Fund at 8.45am on 22 June to share the forthcoming NHS England Commissioning Framework for adult hearing services and to discuss how NHS hearing services have started to tackle … Continue reading
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Alliance calls for adult hearing screening
The Hearing Loss and Deafness Alliance has called on the National Screening Committee to recommend that everyone should be screened for hearing loss as they get older. One in six people have hearing loss, rising to nearly three quarters of … Continue reading
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Implementing the Government’s Action Plan on Hearing Loss
Action Plan on Hearing Loss The Alliance has worked with NHS England to develop the Action Plan on Hearing Loss which establishes a plan for addressing hearing loss and deafness across Government Departments and wider. One of the main commitments in … Continue reading
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