While strong challenges disrupt the audiology profession, what does it take to keep HARRISON FORWARD?

Though by no means the only profession convoluted by the UK's knotty healthcare topography, audiology is frequently delineated in the binary inks of private or public. This bilaterality has been increasingly expressed of late as NHS vs Specsavers. That such a dichotomy is way too reductive to describe the reality of the domestic hearing healthcare panorama is well underlined by an hour chatting to Gordon Harrison, who is Director of Audiology Professional Advancement at that above-mentioned healthcare and retail group. His understanding of all things great and small in both profession and market is forged by being, in his own admission, "lucky in my career", a phrase that soft-pedals the many blocks this Glaswegian has been round as he appreciatively gathered a full idea of how many different ways the same aspects of audiology can be commissioned and delivered, working as an NHS audiologist, in private services, with independents and nationals, and...