Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether audiology Departments are required to collect data on the number of children identified as having hearing loss.
All paediatric audiology services are required to record paediatric screening, assessment data, diagnosis and treatment data onto the national online database called ‘Smart for hearing’. This is co-ordinated centrally by the Newborn Hearing Screening team in the National Screening Office at Public Health England.