Sign inOpen letter of protest fired at Scottish Government over "painfully slow" progress on audiology improvements
Failings in NHS audiology services have meant children, diagnosed too late and left untreated, suffering life-changing consequences through, including developmental delays in their communication, learning and social skills. The failings were supposed to have been redressed but they have not been.
Dawson, left in red jumper, with his mum Melanie:
“It's heartbreaking watching your child work twice as hard just to keep up, knowing it didn't have to be this way.”
Photo courtesy of NDCS
Two years on from urgent recommendations to improve "multiple systemic problems" in NHS Scotland's hearing services for both children and adults, referral waiting times continue to be unacceptably long, while failures in diagnosis, treatment, and support are still impacting the lives of children.
The National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS) says it has information on cases in which children who should be seen within 42 days were waiting up to 600 days, posing a serious risk to early identification and intervention.
On August 25, two years to the day since the Independent Review of Audiology Services in Scotland (IRASS) listed critical measures to redress issues circling out from the exposure of significant failures at NHS Lothian involving more than 150 children over nine years,...
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