Hearing Aids
(asked on 1st December 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have been supplied with hearing aids by (a) age group and (b) gender, in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 11th December 2017
Information is not collected centrally on the age or gender of people prescribed hearing aids. In 2016, a total of 1,373,444 hearing aids were prescribed by the National Health Service.
The table below shows data on hearing aids provided in the last four years.
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | Increase 2014-17 |
Total NHS | 1,265,761 | 1,310,761 | 1,373,444 | 1,362,651 | 7.7% |
Total Private | 256,673 | 275,449 | 297,449 | 307,171 | 19.7% |
Note:
1Figures up to September 2017.