Hearing Impairment
(asked on 28th January 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on the development of a clinical guideline and quality standard for hearing loss.
This question was answered on 4th February 2015
NHS England is the lead commissioner for clinical guideline and quality standard for healthcare topics from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). NICE has advised that a clinical guideline on hearing loss is currently scheduled for development from spring 2016 and currently anticipates that this will be published in autumn 2018. A quality standard on hearing loss based on the clinical guideline will follow.