Audiology: Health Services
Commons · Question 48083 · Tabled 25 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 2 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Sir Iain Duncan Smith
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to move toward patient self-referral for community audiology services as a default pathway in (a) Chingford and Woodford Green constituency and (b) England.
Answer
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 2 Jun 2025
Community audiology services are commissioned by integrated care boards. The priorities and operational planning guidance states that systems are expected to put in place self-referral routes to community audiology services. This was reiterated in the Del...