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<p>NHS England has produced the following service specifications for audiology services
that it commissions, which apply to all ages and sit in the Trauma Programme of Care
(Specialised Ear and Ophthalmology Services):</p><p> </p><p>- Specialised Ear Surgery:
Cochlear Implants (All Ages); and</p><p>- Implantable Hearing Aids for Microtia, Bone
Anchored Hearing Aids and Middle Ear Implants (All Ages).</p><p> </p><p>Copies of
these service specifications are attached.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has no plans
to publish further service specifications for specialist audiology services used by
children.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has also published commissioning policies for
the following services that are available for children:</p><p> </p><p>- Auditory brainstem
implant with congential abnomalities of the auditory nerves of cochleae;</p><p>- Bone
Anchored Hearing Aids; and</p><p>- Bone conducting hearing implants for hearing loss
(all ages).</p>
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