Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the new cochlear implant for deafness be available on the NHS.

NHS England commissions cochlear implants for patients who fulfil the criteria as described in the recently published he National Institute for Health and Care Excellence report ‘Cochlear implants for children and adults with severe to profound deafness: Technology appraisal guidance’ published on 7 March 2019 at the following link:

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ta566

There are a number of cochlear implant devices currently available. Specific advice about which of the devices currently available meet an individual patients requirements would be provided by a patient’s local specialist cochlear implant centre.