PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Hearing Impairment: Children (17 October 2019)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether audiology Departments are required to collect data on the number of children identified as having hearing loss.
Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)
Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)
Answer
All paediatric audiology services are required to record paediatric screening, assessment data, diagnosis and treatment data onto the national online database called ‘Smart for hearing’. This is co-ordinated centrally by the Newborn Hearing Screening team in the National Screening Office at Public Health England.
Answered by:
Dame Caroline Dinenage (Conservative)
24 October 2019
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