What would full high street provision of adult audiology services mean financially? What about standards, and collaboration between sectors? Specsavers interview video.

Specsavers leaders in NHS services and clinical engagement call for collaboration with the NHS in this interview, filmed when the retail giant held an official launch in the House of Commons in November 2024 for its Hearing Health Report: It's Time to Talk About Hearing. Stephen McAndrew and Annie Morris also discussed standards for treatment, and the need to keep treatment at zero-cost for the NHS patient, albeit within a private practice space.

Peter WIX, Published on 31 January 2025

What would full high street provision of adult audiology services mean financially? What about standards, and collaboration between sectors? Specsavers interview video.
More aspects of proposed pathway changes in the delivery of NHS adult audiology services are discussed in this Audiology Worldnews (AWN) interview during a busy House of Commons launch of a campaign to improve hearing care in the UK. Watch and listen to Specsavers experts, Stephen McAndrew, Director of NHS Services, and Annie Morris, Head of Clinical Engagement - Audiology, in this five-minute video. They discuss the possibility of collaboration between the private sector and the NHS, points of convergence between the two, access to audiology in difficult geographical areas, quality standards, finding the right model for the right patient, transformation in hearing care, and demographic changes. Also under discussion is the financial side of any pathway change, the need for a primary care model in high street practices to maintain zero-cost provision of care and the maintenance of NHS levels of technology in hearing...

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