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Home Hearing Tests

Posted on May 17, 2011 by admin

Snippet of information for those wondering about the accuracy of home hearing tests… The National Acoustics Laboratory (NAL) have recently studied the headphone set-up with audiometers and have determined that you can get far better results when using foam insert … Continue reading →

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Is the NHS really that bad?!

Posted on July 29, 2010 by admin

Some interesting numbers for you: In Western Europe, in 2009, 2.6 million hearing aids were sold Germany claim 713,000 of those and France 408,000, whilst for the UK the figure was 195,000. Why so little comparatively? – Because our NHS supplied … Continue reading →

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Please recycle your hearing aid batteries

Posted on April 6, 2010 by admin

ARE YOU RECYCLING YOUR HEARING AID BATTERIES? Amongst the 600 million batteries ending up in landfill every year, 50 million are hearing aid batteries! Both these figures are unacceptable and are well behind the rest of Europe. Please do your … Continue reading →

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