The Children’s Hearing Service is a community team which works from Whitegate Drive Health Centre, St Anne’s Primary Care Centre, Cleveleys Health Centre and Fleetwood Hospital.
Our aim is to provide a high quality, safe and effective hearing service to children and young people with hearing difficulties. We provide hearing tests to support the identification of childhood hearing impairment.
We offer an efficient friendly service to children and young people with hearing difficulties across Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre offering community based diagnostic testing in clinics. We also accept referrals from all health professionals and schools. Children referred with a hearing concern will be seen within six weeks.
Please note:
Earlier this year the Trust began a review of its paediatric audiology services as part of the Paediatric Hearing Services Improvement Programme, which was established by NHS England in response to issues found in paediatric audiology services nationally.
We have taken the decision to pause our community-based children’s hearing services in Blackpool while we review cases to understand whether any of our patients may need further assessment and this work is ongoing.
Once this review is complete we will be contacting the families of any children we believe may need further assessment. This will take a little time but we are determined to get this right for patients.
In the meantime, whilst the community children’s service is paused, children who need audiology support will be seen by the audiology service at Blackpool Victoria Hospital instead to make sure they get the help they need.
Please rest assured that affected families will be contacted directly with further information. If you have any concerns and would like to speak to a member of the team, please call a dedicated number: 07345 433721.
