Hearing Aids
(asked on 23rd July 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of (a) 16-65 year olds and (b) people over 65 receive hearing aids on the NHS.
This question was answered on 5th September 2018
This information is not collected centrally.
However, the following table shows data published by industry on the number of Hearing Aid units supplied to the National Health Service in 2017.
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Total |
Total number of hearing aid units supplied to the NHS in 2017 | 343,690 | 341,070 | 337,228 | 388,754 | 1,410,742 |