Internal Reference Number: FOI_9030
Date Request Received: 11/11/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 01/12/2025 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Adult audiology service
Request Category: Companies
| Question Number 1: Please can you answer the following questions as a Freedom of Information request. All questions relate to your audiology service. Workforce: The following questions refer to qualified/registered audiologists in your department (please include audiologists and clinical scientists that provide audiological services): a) How many audiologists do you have in headcount? b) How many audiologists do you have in full time equivalents (FTE)? c) How many FTE job vacancies do you have for qualified audiologists/registered audiologists? | |
| Answer To Question 1: Workforce: The following questions refer to qualified/registered audiologists in your department (please include audiologists and clinical scientists that provide audiological services): a) How many audiologists do you have in headcount? 10 b) How many audiologists do you have in full time equivalents (FTE)? 7.57 WTE audiologists. c) How many FTE job vacancies do you have for qualified audiologists/registered audiologists? 1.0 WTE | |
| Question Number 2: Services: Which of the following services does your audiology department deliver for adults (please include all that apply)? 鈽怘earing assessment 鈽怘earing aid fitting 鈽怓ollow up appointment 鈽怉ftercare 鈥� including but not limited to tubing, fine tuning etc. 鈽怘earing reassessment 鈽怶ax management 鈽怑NT support please state: Please enter text here 鈽怬ther, please state: Please enter text here. | |
| Answer To Question 2: Services: Which of the following services does your audiology department deliver for adults (please include all that apply)? Hearing assessment - Yes Hearing aid fitting - Yes Follow up appointment - Yes Aftercare 鈥� including but not limited to tubing, fine tuning etc. - Yes Hearing reassessment - Yes Wax management - No ENT support please state: Please enter text here - Yes, medical oversight of direct MRI referrals, ad-hoc clinical support (answering questions/examinations) for non-routine cases, discussion of referrals, accepting referrals. Other, please state: Please enter text here. Balance assessment Balance rehabilitation Tinnitus support Bone anchored hearing device assessment and support Complex adult diagnostics | |
| Question Number 3: What is the current wait time for patients to receive the first initial hearing assessment? Please enter the number of weeks here. | |
| Answer To Question 3: Please see attached file To accompany this answer to question 3 please also see the documents listed below:  13350 - FOI_9030 - Adult audiology service - FOR ISSUE v2.xlsx | |
| Question Number 4: After a hearing assessment, what is the average wait time for a patient to have their hearing aid fitted? Please enter the number of weeks here. | |
| Answer To Question 4: See file attached to Q3 | |
| Question Number 5: Once the hearing aid has been fitted, on average how long do patients have to wait for the first follow up appointment? Please enter the number of weeks here. | |
| Answer To Question 5: See file attached to Q3 | |
| Question Number 6: 6. What proportion (%) of patients that are referred to adult audiology services for a hearing assessment are referred from either: a. ENT: Please enter the percentage here. b. GP: Please enter the percentage here. c. Self-referral: Please enter the percentage here. d. Other, please state: Please enter the percentage here. | |
| Answer To Question 6: See file attached to Q3 | |
| Question Number 7: What is the local bilateral fitting rate? (please state the percentage) Please enter the percentage here. | |
| Answer To Question 7: See file attached to Q3 | |
| Question Number 8: Please list any adult audiological services that use patient initiated follow-up (PIFU)? | |
| Answer To Question 8: See file attached to Q3 | |
| Question Number 9: Do you offer private audiological services for adults? | |
| Answer To Question 9: See file attached to Q3 | |
| Question Number 10: a. How many adult hearing assessments does your department perform in an average month? b. And what proportion (%) of these assessments are new patients? Please enter the percentage here. | |
| Answer To Question 10: See file attached to Q3 | |
| Question Number 11: a. How many adults does your department fit with hearing aids in an average month? b. And what proportion (%) these fits are for new patients? Please enter the percentage here. | |
| Answer To Question 11: See file attached to Q3 | |
| Question Number 12: If audiologists in your department provides aural care, please state how many patients are treated for ear wax in an average month? | |
| Answer To Question 12: See file attached to Q3 | |
| Question Number 13: What is the average wait time for access to an appointment for earwax management? Please enter the number of weeks here. | |
| Answer To Question 13: See file attached to Q3 | |
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