Sign in"No one-size-fits-all" solution to UK adult audiology service pathway - new BAA President Benton (VIDEO)
Contrasting opinions continue to tangle the ongoing debate on proposals to universally extend the UK's NHS primary care adult audiology services to private businesses. Audiology Worldnews editor-in-chief Peter Wix asked Claire Benton, new President of the British Academy of Audiology, if recent public panel discussions between different parties were bringing consensus closer.
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One side sees high street providers of hearing services being the only way to solve the problem of long waiting lists faced by patients in many areas of the UK. The other side defends the capacity of the NHS to deliver, and argues that the state provider is the best way of taking care of the population's lifetime hearing needs. Some voices are represented by a call for collaboration, and argue that pathway change on delivery should be led by the NHS itself.
It is a debate that the retail giant Specsavers has taken behind the walls of the UK's different Parliament buildings. And Audiology Worldnews (through its British sister...
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