Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to introduce the NICE guidelines on hearing loss across all Clinical Commissioning Groups.

Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are expected to take account of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines published in 2018 on ‘Hearing loss in adults: assessment and management’, alongside local priorities when commissioning hearing loss services. The guidelines have formed the basis for the development a quality standard for adult-onset hearing loss, that CCGs can use to support commissioning, and which NICE will publish and promote on 10 July 2019.