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Public Health Planning for Hearing Impairment (2022)

2 March 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
The World Report on Hearing, published in 2021 by the WHO reports that 430 million people in the world have moderate or worse hearing loss, all of whom require rehabilitation [1]. Over 1.5 billion have any degree of hearing loss....

Silent crisis: the exodus of hearing healthcare professionals from the Philippines

6 November 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
The migration of Filipino audiologists and otolaryngologists abroad is worsening the shortage of hearing specialists. Improving local conditions is vital to retaining talent. As ear and hearing healthcare professionals practising in the Philippines, we have seen the struggle in keeping...

RNID’s campaign to restore NHS earwax removal services in the UK

3 May 2024 |
Wax removal in the UK has become a topic of intense discussion. Here, Crystal Rolfe discusses the RNID’s findings and approach to tackling the issue. Earwax build-up can cause painful and distressing symptoms – a 2022 RNID survey found people...

Nuclear heads – and necks

1 May 2014 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck
Imaging of the extra-cranial head and neck is challenging due to the anatomic complexity of the region. CT, MRI and ultrasonography (US) are amongst the most frequently utilised radiological modalities in head and neck imaging but do not always provide...

Innovation in medical product technologies

2 November 2020 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
There is a point in all innovation projects where the clinician has exhausted their knowledge and needs expert help to create a prototype. Mark Prince, Design Engineer, discusses this phase of the project and how engineers’ analytical thinking brings a...

Bringing ear care and hearing services to the hardest to reach: the potential of primary healthcare workers

4 May 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Otology
Can workers from the local community plug the workforce gap in providing ear and hearing care? Bringing ear and hearing care services closer to the community remains a key component of reducing the burden of ear and hearing conditions across...

Bringing ear care and hearing services to the hardest to reach: the potential of primary healthcare workers

4 May 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Otology
Can workers from the local community plug the workforce gap in providing ear and hearing care? Bringing ear and hearing care services closer to the community remains a key component of reducing the burden of ear and hearing conditions across...

19th Annual National ENT Masterclass®

24 January 2025 -26 January 2025 | ENTA - ENT
Miss Eleanor Crossley, Association of Otolaryngologists in Training (AOT) President and ENT Registrar, South London DeaneryDoncaster Royal Infirmary was again the home of the 19th International ENT Masterclass in January 2025. The three-day programme was packed with sub-specialists and delegates...

OBITUARY: Bernard Colman (1924-2020)

15 September 2020 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
Bernard Colman at his leaving party at the old Radcliffe infirmary in 1989, which was his retirement year. Born above a corner shop in Wolverhampton on 17 October 1924, Bernard Colman entered Wolverhampton Grammar School in 1933 but left early...

BACO: evolution and modernisation

1 January 2018 | | ENTA - ENT
Chairing the local organising committee is no small task, but it has a personal connection for Tim Woolford, as he tells us. I attended my first BACO in Manchester as a registrar, and have attended every one since. In July,...

Deaf scholar is UK first

2 January 2024
The first deaf scholar ever to achieve full professor status in the field of deaf studies and sign language studies in the UK has been announced at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.

What does functional neuroimaging tell us about tinnitus?

24 May 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Imaging, ENTA - Neurotology, ENTA - Tinnitus
One of the most common causes of tinnitus is noise exposure, be that either cumulative day-to-day exposure over a lifetime or experience of acute noise trauma such as a loud concert or shooting incident. Observational data indicate that up to...