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  The Fight to Retain Hospital NHS Adult Hearing Aid Services In this blog I am referring to the service in England, accepting that it may resonate with other home countries and that we may all learn from a wider exploration of what is best in each. Let me first ask a question: In the future - should NHS Adult Hearing Aid Services be delivered primarily by Hospital based Audiology Services? And answer it: Yes, unequivocally. Hospital based Audiology Services should be the prime provider and the bedrock of the service for routine, complex, adult, and paediatric hearing aid services. I say that because: ·        There already exist facilities, infrastructure, workforce, considerable experience of the widest service offer, and collaboration between different aspects of the service. ·        Collaboration between different aspects of the service (specialist services, hearing therapy etc.) enhances quality, clinician experience of unusual presentations and ultimately leads t