Hearing Aids: Staffordshire

(asked on 1st September 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations his Department has made to North Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Group about its proposal to end the provision of NHS hearing aids.


Answered by
Norman Lamb Portrait
Norman Lamb
This question was answered on 8th September 2014

A search of the Department’s Ministerial correspondence database identified 66 written representations received between 27 June 2014 and 2 September 2014 about North Staffordshire clinical commissioning group’s (CCG) proposals to decommission the funding of hearing aids for adults with mild to moderate age-related hearing loss.

The provision of hearing aids for adults with mild to moderate hearing loss is a matter for local commissioners and is based on the needs of the local population.

As such the Department has made no representations to North Staffordshire CCG about this matter.

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