Scrivens leader on UK audiology pathways: "Collaboration is inevitable!"

Mark Georgevic is well placed to make a vigorous contribution to any debate on how NHS hearing aids might be delivered free at the point of delivery within a future primary care set-up woven into centres belonging to approved NHS community providers from the private sector. He directs 170 Scrivens stores in the UK, all offering hearing services, his vibrant group also boasting presence in over 100 medical centres across England. Since 2012, under the NHS internal market's Any Qualified Provider (AQP) contractual system and provider collaboration models - set up to increase patient choice from among selected quality health services - Scrivens has been comfortably meeting the criteria of the AQP framework to patients' satisfaction, says Georgevic. Proposals to allow high street hearing aid providers to treat adult patients under a UK-wide NHS primary care mandate have been flown high in the sky by the campaign of another...