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date	08/06/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Hearing Impairment: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of including hearing screening in the NHS Health Checks programme offered to people from the ages of 40 to 74.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	56171
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2020 answer text <p>In May 2019, the NHS Health Check Expert Scientific and Clinical Advisory Panel (ESCAP) received a content review proposal to consider amending the NHS Health Check to include hearing loss. ESCAP members recognised the importance and impact of hearing loss as a public health issue, and it was agreed that the group would await the outcome of the United Kingdom National Screening Committee’s (UK NSC) review of evidence on hearing screening, before considering changes to the programme. The UK NSC recommendation on hearing loss screening in adults is still currently under review.</p><p>Public Health England has been commissioned to deliver an evidence-based review of the NHS Health Check programme. This externally chaired review will consider and make recommendations on future changes to the content of the NHS Health Check.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 25/06/2020 09:54:58 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

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date	16/03/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hearing Impairment: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to implement an adult hearing screening programme; and if he will recommend to the National Screening Committee that it undertakes a public health campaign on deafness and hearing loss.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	31400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <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> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 21/03/2016 17:40:40 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper