Hearing Aids
(asked on 23rd March 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS has spent on (a) hearing aids, (b) cochlear hearing aids and (c) bone anchored hearing aids in each of the last five years.
Information on spend for audiology services and specific procedures for hearing problems are not available in the format requested. The following table provides NHS programme budgeting figures on ‘problems of hearing’ for the five year period 2008-09 to 2012-13, which is the latest available data.
Year | 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 |
Expenditure (£ billion) | 0.42 | 0.50 | 0.45 | 0.46 | 0.46 |
More information about programme budgeting data can be found on the NHS England website at the following link:
http://www.england.nhs.uk/resources/resources-for-ccgs/prog-budgeting/