UK Council on Deafness

October 2004 Parliamentary Report

In this Report

• Digital Hearing Aids - Commons Written Answers (4 Oct 2004)
• Hearing Aids - Commons Written Answers (12 Oct 2004)

Commons Written Answers (4 Oct 2004)
Digital Hearing Aids

Derek Conway: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list (a) the present length of wait and (b) the number of patients waiting for digital hearing aids in each London hospital.

Mr. Hutton: The information requested is not available centrally.

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average waiting time for (a) initial audiology appointments for digital hearing aids and (b) fitting of digital hearing aids is in each primary care trust in England.

Dr. Ladyman: This information is not collected centrally. We have invested £94 million over two years which will be used to make digital hearing aids available across England by April 2005.

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what action he is taking to speed up universal availability of digital hearing aids.

Dr. Ladyman: All audiology departments in England will routinely be fitting digital hearing aids by April 2005.

The Department is investing a further £94 million in the financial years 2003-04 and 2004-05. This is additional to a total of £30.75 million invested since the modernising hearing aids services project began in September 2000.

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Commons Written Answers (12 Oct 2004)
Hearing Aids

Mr. Dodds: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the average waiting time is for people in Northern Ireland to be supplied with a hearing aid in Northern Ireland hospitals.

Angela Smith: Information on average waiting times for supply of hearing aids is not collected. However, provisional information for the quarter ending June 2004 indicates that the median waiting time (the middle value of all waiting times) from the hospital receiving a referral to the supply of a digital hearing aid is between three and six months.

Mr. Dodds: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the waiting list is for the supply of hearing aids to patients in each Northern Ireland hospital.

Angela Smith: This information requested is not available.

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