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<p>The UK National Screening Committee recommended in 2015 that screening for hearing
loss in adults should not be offered because:</p><p> </p><p>- although hearing loss
in older adults is a serious public health problem the evidence is too limited to
establish the type of screening test to be used, the severity of hearing loss to target,
the age of the population to be screened and the frequency of screening;</p><p>- uncertainty
on the effectiveness of the long term use of hearing aids and on the effectiveness
of additional interventions aimed at improving the duration of hearing aid use; and</p><p>-
the absence of randomised controlled trials of screening in the general population.
Screening has not been shown to provide any hearing related improvement in quality
of life in comparison to hearing loss identified in other ways.</p><p> </p><p>There
are currently no plans by Public Health England to run an awareness campaign on adult
hearing loss.</p>
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