RNID TELLS STAFFORD MP ABOUT HEARING TEST CAMPAIGN

Stafford’s Labour MP David Kidney has met representatives of the charity RNID to learn more about a campaign for people to have a hearing test.

RNID campaigns for a national screening service for older people, but as a step towards such a service offers its own confidential telephone test. David Kidney explains:

“Around 9 million people in the UK suffer some hearing loss or other impairment. Doctors can help preserve some hearing, for example by fitting a hearing aid. It helps if the diagnosis of hearing loss is made early so that more hearing can be saved.

“RNID invites people who suspect that they are losing their hearing to call them for a free, five-minute telephone hearing check on:

0845 600 5555

“I would like constituents to know about this offer so that people who are at all worried about hearing loss can get a test.

“Of course, when people are diagnosed as having a hearing loss, they will want to know that the NHS will treat them. We learned earlier this year that our local hospital in Stafford has invested in more treatment facilities in order to cut waiting times for treatment that were previously too long.

“I am supporting RNID in their campaign and in their work to make more widely available the telephone test that they operate.”