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Connected hearing healthcare: the realisation of benefit relies on successful clinical implementation

1 November 2019 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Connected hearing healthcare is the one of best tools for improving access to, as well as the overall quality, of hearing healthcare. Evelyn Davies-Venn and Danielle Glista discuss the benefits and important factors that contribute to successful implementation of this...

Being a doctor abroad – comparing the Greek healthcare system with the NHS

3 July 2023 | | ENTA - General
Healthcare systems and training programmes vary significantly across the world. By learning about other healthcare systems, we can identify blind spots in our own system and continue to improve training. Sofia Anastasiadou, an ENT Registrar in South West England, describes...

Take part in the FAMOUS study

5 December 2022
Could your clinic be one of 40 NHS sites across the UK to participate in the FAMOUS study? Organisers need your help to improve the assessment and management of adult hearing loss.

Scotland’s first UKAS accreditation for paediatric audiology

5 September 2025
The United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) has granted Scotland’s first accreditation against the Improving Quality In Physiological Services (IQIPS) standard. The award was made to the Audiology Department at NHS Tayside and covers both adult and paediatric audiology services delivered at four hospitals in Dundee, Perth and Brechin.

Out of Africa: Audiovannah audiology clinic in Zimbabwe

1 March 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Audiovannah reception area. In 2015 two Danish audiologists, Jenny Pedersen and Nicolai Pedersen, relocated to Zimbabwe and opened a full service audiology clinic (Audiovannah) in the capital city of Harare. The focus has been to give back as much as...

ENT registrar national selection: how can we advise aspiring candidates?

1 May 2014 | | ENTA - ENT
With the aim of creating fair selection into the few available training numbers, ENT was one of the first surgical specialties to move to a national selection process for selecting new registrars in England. Since 2013 the selection process has...

In conversation with De Wet Swanepoel, President of the International Society of Audiology

1 March 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
Gareth Smith caught up with the new President of the International Society of Audiology, De Wet Swanepoel, about the aims of the society, the upcoming World Congress of Audiology and the current state of hearing healthcare in Africa. De Wet...

General overview of endoscopic ear surgery: advantages and principles

1 May 2016 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
The philosophy of endoscopic ear surgery presents surgeons with a tricky concept – does the magnificent view make up for the fact I need to operate with one hand? In this article, Jane Lea discusses the advantages of operating transcanal...

Life Down Under: an overview of the Sydney Endoscopic Ear Fellowship

9 September 2020 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
As we emerge from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the first half of 2020, trainee colleagues will be looking to their future once again. Options may include fellowships, and we are delighted to have Dr Andrew Ma share...

Long-term outcomes of children and young people with cochlear implants

5 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Paediatrics
Introduction Profound childhood hearing loss has a huge impact on early communication skills, the acquisition of spoken language, and hence on educational attainments and employment prospects. Over the centuries, educators of the deaf attempted to overcome the challenge by using...

Inter-professional teamwork and hearing care for older adults with cognitive loss

27 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
There is growing awareness that hearing loss is linked to dementia [1]. The average first-time hearing aid user is about 70 years old. By this age, approximately 1 in 2 people have hearing loss and 1 in 7 have cognitive...

Health related quality of life measures as outcome parameters in middle ear diseases

1 January 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Otology
Surely the only outcome needed for post-surgical ears is a better PTA? Marcus Neudert argues there should be more to it than that. To draw a comprehensive picture of the disease-associated restrictions in patients with chronic otitis media, audiometric outcome...