Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 40296
Hearing Impairment: Children
Tabled: 21 March 2025
Answered: 27 March 2025
Question
Mr James Frith
Labour — Bury North
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to issue guidance to ICBs on providing equality of access to auditory verbal therapy for deaf babies and young children.
Answer
Stephen KinnockAudiology services are locally commissioned, and the responsibility for meeting the needs of non-hearing children lies with local National Health Service commissioners. It is important that local commissioners have the discretion to decide how best to mee...
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