{"id":16082,"date":"2025-08-16T04:55:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T04:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=16082"},"modified":"2025-08-16T04:55:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T04:55:20","slug":"hi-tech-hearing-aids-are-also-available-on-the-nhs-deafness-and-hearing-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=16082","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hi-tech\u2019 hearing aids are also available on the NHS | Deafness and hearing loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The closing paragraphs of Lucy Knight\u2019s article (\u2018I\u2019m carrying survivor\u2019s guilt\u2019: Raymond Antrobus on growing up deaf, 9 August) may have left readers with a misleading impression of the\u00a0services and quality of hearing aids provided by the NHS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cHi-tech\u201d 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\u00a0(though, like smartphones, I suspect that the upgrades are often minimal).<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Like the private sector, the NHS provision of hearing aids is also regularly upgraded. The replacement hearing aids I got this\u00a0January provide excellent sound, and are a conduit for all the\u00a0radio and podcast listening I\u00a0need. Not a bad service.<br \/><strong>Rob Voakes<\/strong><br \/><em>Bradford<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong><em><span data-dcr-style=\"bullet\"\/> Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>email<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>letters<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> section.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The closing paragraphs of Lucy Knight\u2019s article (\u2018I\u2019m carrying survivor\u2019s guilt\u2019: Raymond Antrobus on growing up deaf, 9 August) may have left readers with a misleading impression of the\u00a0services and quality of hearing aids provided by the NHS. \u201cHi-tech\u201d hearing aids that connect to a smartphone are standard issue with the NHS. True, the very<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[453,8676,452,9514,988,1229],"class_list":{"0":"post-16082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-aids","9":"tag-deafness","10":"tag-hearing","11":"tag-hitech","12":"tag-loss","13":"tag-nhs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}