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Hearing aid priority for veterans

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Jax Blunt
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From the bbc

But he added: “The government’s own figures show that about 80,000 people have already waited too long for an assessment, while our own survey shows that the average wait around England for a hearing aid fitting is 48 weeks.”

While I can see that keeping ppl waiting for a hearing aid who have lost their hearing in the service of the country may not be politically the way forward, I’ve been waiting for a call back to see how my new hearing aid is working for ooh, about 5 years now. That was after waiting quite some time to have it fitted. At the time I was told that a digital aid would be a great improvement for me, and that I’d be on the priority list for having one.

I can only assume that they’ve lost that list 🙁 The aid I have at the moment is so useless that I don’t wear it, and my experience of trying to get anything out of the NHS is so negative that I just do without. I wonder how many other ppl there are out there like me?

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5 responses to “Hearing aid priority for veterans”

  1. Gem avatar
    Gem

    And over here, everyone thinks a national health service would solve all our health care problems!

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  2. Jax avatar
    Jax

    Thanks for the first decent giggle I’ve had all day 😀

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  3. Tim avatar
    Tim

    Well, I think it would be a great idea if we had a national health service. 😐

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  4. Claire avatar
    Claire

    I’ve only just seen this post.
    I’ve given up going to hearing services or whatever they are called. All they do each time is check my acuity loss, tell me its the same/worse, they can’t do anything, come back in 6 months. That seems a waste of my time and their resources to be honest so I don’t go anymore.

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  5. t-bird avatar
    t-bird

    Jax, that’s such a shame, my dad has matching digital aids now having got 1 to see how he went a year or so ago. It was less than 6 months from going to the Dr with “I can’t hear what my grand daughter is saying to me anymore” (and those of you who know the child in question will therefore realise just how deaf he had got…) to having the first 1 fitted. Can you not stomp feet a bit here?

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