Health Education: Music

(asked on 23rd June 2021) - View Source

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 educate people on hearing health harm from amplified listening.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 29th June 2021

Free hearing tests are available through general practitioners. Larger pharmacies and opticians can also carry out hearing tests. As set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England and NHS Improvement are working with partners to ensure that appropriate hearing checks are carried out for children and young people with a learning disability, or who are autistic, in special residential schools.

NHS England and NHS Improvement’s guidance ‘5 ways to prevent hearing loss’ is available at the following link:

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/-5-ways-to-prevent-hearing-loss-/

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