Sign inNHS 10 year plan offers "exciting opportunities" for people with hearing loss, says RNID
The health plan from the UK Government builds on the intent to make three big shifts within the NHS: from sickness to prevention, analogue to digital, and from hospital to community.
The Rt Hon Wes Streeting MP announced the UK Government's 10 Year Plan for the NHS. Photo: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
The UK Government has published a 10 Year Plan to reform the NHS across England, one of the plan's crucial aspects focusing where NHS care will be provided.
To this and other shifts proposed under the plan, the audiology sphere's initial reaction has been welcoming, the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) stating that long overdue changes to audiology services could "help deliver an NHS that is accessible for people who are deaf or have hearing loss".
[caption id="attachment_139703" align="alignright" width="300"] Photo courtesy of RNID Crystal Rolfe, Director of Health at RNID[/caption]
Crystal Rolfe, RNID Director of Strategy, voiced the RNID's belief that "routine...
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