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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics

‘Hi-tech’ hearing aids are also available on the NHS

Senior man with hearing aid
‘Like the private sector, the NHS provision of hearing aids is also regularly upgraded.’ Photograph: Westend61/Getty

The closing paragraphs of Lucy Knight’s article (‘I’m carrying survivor’s guilt’: Raymond Antrobus on growing up deaf, 9 August) may have left readers with a misleading impression of the services and quality of hearing aids provided by the NHS.

“Hi-tech” hearing aids that connect to a smartphone are standard issue with the NHS. True, the very latest models of hearing aids may only be available privately (though, like smartphones, I suspect that the upgrades are often minimal).

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