Children’s Hearing Services Sheffield Children's Hospital
Based at Sheffield Children’s Hospital, our Hearing (Audiology) Service sees children to assess and manage their hearing and balance problems.
We are also a designated bone-anchored hearing aid (baha) service and perform surgery and hearing aid fitting at the hospital.
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Contact Details
- Contact Name
- Sheffield Children's Hospital
- Telephone
- 0114 271 7450 0114 271 7450 Text phone: 07854 089810 Text phone: 07854 089810
- scn-tr.audiology@nhs.net
- Website
- Hearing Services Sheffield Children's Hospital
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Where to go
- Name
- Sheffield Children's Hospital
- Address
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Western Bank
Sheffield
- Postcode
- S10 2TH
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Time, Costs and Availability
Time / Date Details
- Time of day
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Afternoon
Morning - Session Information
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The department is open from 8.30am to 5pm, Monday to Thursday, and 8.30am to 4.30pm Friday.
Late night opening Wednesdays until 7pm.
Saturday mornings on an ad-hoc basis
Availability
- Referral Details
- The service is available for any child where there is a concern about hearing loss.
- Referrals will be prioritised as urgent if the referral suggests the child may be at high risk of a hearing loss (meningitis, head injury, chemotherapy etc)
- There is a pathway for referrals from the universal newborn and school entry screening programmes.
- For routine referrals, families will receive a letter which will ask them to contact the department to arrange a suitable appointment. They will be advised of the various clinic locations available.
- For children with a permanent hearing loss, families will be informed of ad hoc group sessions which are arranged with other families and also sessions for basic sign language tuition.
- The commissioners may need to approve funding for referrals for balance and auditory processing disorders (apd) before an appointment can be offered for children who are referred who do not live in sheffield.
- Other notes
Referrals are accepted from any professional who has contact with the child. Our main referrers are GP, health visitor, school nurse and speech and language therapist. Urgent referrals must be seen within 2 weeks of the date on the referral, routine referrals must be seen within 6 weeks of the date on the referral. Home educators can access the service by asking a professional who knows the child to refer them e.G gp
Additional Local Offer Information
Local Offer
- Description
- Referrals are accepted from any professional who has contact with the child. Our main referrers are GP, health visitor, school nurse and speech and language therapist.
- Urgent referrals must be seen within 2 weeks of the date on the referral, routine referrals must be seen within 6 weeks of the date on the referral.
- Home educators can access the service by asking a professional who knows the child to refer them e.G gp