Digital Hearing Aids (Hansard, 15 May 2003)

§ Jacqui Smith

The table shows those national health service trusts and primary care trusts that have fitted digital hearing aids as part of the modernising hearing aid services (MHAS) project, along with the sites where

Modernised Sites
Addenbroke's NHS Trust	Addenbrooke's Hospital	Adult/Child
Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust	Oldchurch Hospital	Adult
Barking and Dagenham PCT	Vicarage Fields Health Centre	Child
Basildon and Thurrock General Hospitals NHS Trust	Basildon and Thurrock Hospital	Adult/Child
Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Trust	Birmingham Children's Hospital	Child
Bolton Primary Care NHS Trust	Royal Bolton Hospital	Adult/Child
Bournemouth Primary Care Trust	Boscombe Community Hospital	Adult/Child
Bradford Hospitals NHS Trust	Bradford Royal Infirmary	Adult/Child
Brighton Health Care NHS Trust	Royal Sussex County Hospital	Adult/Child
Central Manchester and Manchester Children's University Hospitals NHS Trust	Manchester Royal Infirmary	Adult/Child
Central Manchester PCT	Moss Side Health Centre	Child
City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Trust	Sunderland Royal Hospital	Adult/Child
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Trust	Countess of Chester Hospital	Adult/Child
Croydon PCT	Crystal Centre, Croydon	Child
East Cheshire NHS Trust	Macclesfield District General Hospital	Adult/Child
East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust	Conquest Hospital/ Princess Alice Hospital	Adult/Child
Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust	Essex County Hospital	Adult/Child
George Elliot Hospital NHS Trust	George Elliot Hospital	Adult/Child
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust	Gloucestershire Royal Hospital	Adult/Child
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust	Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children	Child
Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust	Charing Cross Hospital	Adult/Child
James Paget Healthcare NHS Trust	James Paget Hospital	Adult/Child
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	Leeds General Infirmary	Adult/Child
Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust	Mayday University Hospital	Adult
Mid Cheshire Healthcare NHS Trust	Leighton Hospital	Adult/Child
Morecombe Bay Hospitals NHS Trust	Westmorland General Hospital	Adult
North Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust	North Hampshire Hospital	Adult/Child
Northern Devon NHS Healthcare Trust	North Devon District Hospital	Adult/Child
Peterborough Hospitals NHS Trust	Edith Cavell Hospital	Adult/Child
Queens Medical Centre Nottingham University NHS Trust	Queens Medical Centre	Adult/Child
Rochdale NHS Trust	Birch Hill Hospital	Adult/Child
Royal Berkshire And Battle Hospitals NHS Trust	Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading	Adult/Child
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust	Royal Cornwall Hospital	Adult
Royal Devon and Exeter Healthcare NHS Trust	Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital	Adult/Child
Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust	Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital	Adult
Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust	Royal Free Hospital	Adult/Child
Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust	Royal Liverpool University Hospital	Adult
Royal Shrewsbury and Princess Royal Hospitals	Royal Shrewsbury Hospital	Adult/Child
Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust	Royal United Hospital Bath	Adult
Salford Primary Care NHS Trust	Hope Hospital	Adult/Child
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust	City Hospital	Adult/Child
Sheffield Children's Hospital NHS Trust	Sheffield Children's Hospital	Child
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust	King's Mill Centre	Adult
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust	King's Mill Centre	Child
Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust	Royal South Hants Hospital	Adult
Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust	Princess Margaret Hospital	Adult/Child
Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust	Trafford General Hospital	Adult/Child
Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust	Hearing Assessment Centre for Children	Child
United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust (Child)	Bristol Children's Hospital	Child
University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust	Selly Oak Hospital	Adult
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust	Leicester Royal Infirmary	Adult/Child
West Dorset General Hospitals NHS Trust	Dorset County Hospital	Adult/Child
Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust	Hurst Road Health Centre	Adult/Child
Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust	Royal Hampshire County Hospital	Adult
Windsor and Maidenhead PCT	King Edward VII Hospital	Adult/Child
Wirral Hospital NHS Trust	Arrowe Park Hospital	Adult/Child
Wolverhampton Health Care NHS Trust	West Park Rehabilitation Hospital	Adult/Child
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust	Thomas Linacre Centre	Child

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the aids are fitted. It is not possible to provide a detailed breakdown of the number of aids fitted at each site but a total of 83,397 digital hearing aids, including about 1,600 children's hearing aids, were fitted as part of the MHAS project by the end of April 2003. In addition, a number of sites have applied for access to the Purchasing and Supply Agency's contracts for digital hearing aids outside the project. Information is not held centrally regarding the number of digital aids fitted outside the MHAS programme.