Latest News
Here you’ll find all our latest news and thoughts. From interesting articles we’ve found in the press to news about our people, work and the latest technological innovations we’re seeing. If you’d like more information regarding any of the topics here, please get in touch.
Hearing Mentors and the Feel Good Factor
Our Practice Founder, Robert Beiny, writes; My work has always revolved around helping someone else. Sometimes that takes a straightforward and simple approach, other times it needs me to be more creative in supporting those who approach me. Today was one of those later days. It concerned a new 32-year-old client who is in need of supportive audiological guidance, hearing...
March 21, 2023The World Health Organisation on Hearing
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General speaks about the importance of hearing for both physical and mental health. Recorded on World Hearing Day, the video serves as a launch platform for the WHO’s Primary Ear and Hearing Care Training Manual which can to accessed HERE. It’s good to see such high profile, international recognition of the importance of hearing...
March 3, 2023World Hearing Day
Today, 3rd March, is World Hearing Day – an initiative sponsored by the World Health Organisation It’s a day that has been set aside to raise awareness and celebrate our sense of hearing. It’s also an opportunity for audiologists around the world to educate, inform and advise on the need for regular hearing screenings, to identify the need for the...
February 23, 2023Healthy Ageing – how hearing “well’ helps us stay young
Our team member, Robert, was recently in hospital, where he had time to reflect on listening to professionals, taking their advice, healthy living, ageing, well-being, cognitive health, age, and, of course, hearing. Here he shares his thoughts with us: “So, there I lay, in the pre-op area, waiting for the pre-med to take effect before I was given general anesthesia....
February 3, 2023
Hearing Healthcare Practice Supports Tinnitus Week
We’re supporting Tinnitus Week. Tinnitus UK, a charity which supports people living with tinnitus, is launching its annual awareness campaign on 6th February 2023. Tinnitus is, of course, the sensation of hearing a sound when there’s no external source. Affecting an estimated one in seven adults in the UK, the severity of the symptoms varies according to each individual and...
January 27, 2023
Regular Hearing Tests may help Prevent Dementia
Wellness: the growing link between a healthy brain and our sense of hearing More evidence is being published to support the fact that people in their thirties should regularly have hearing check ups to help prevent dementia in later life. And a new online tool from Alzheimer’s Research UK helps to identify your own risk and provides steps you can...
January 23, 2023The Times and Hearing Tests
There have been a number of articles in the national press recently concerning hearing and the importance of hearing tests. One recent example, by journalist Hattie Crisell writing in The Times, titled “I’m 39 and I’ve just been for a hearing test,” opens by saying; “For those of us in our thirties, there can be an awful lot of appointments...
December 24, 2022A Few Words at Christmas
Our Christmas message is one of giving thanks. As Harpenden’s only truly independent hearing clinic, owned and managed by a local family, we are a rare entity in a corporate world. We provide a community-based practice located just off the Harpenden High Street, where we’ve been open every weekday for the past forty-two Christmases! Our longevity and consistency have been...
December 18, 2022
WHICH? Report puts Independent Hearing Aid Suppliers Top
According to the latest report from consumer advocacy group Which?, customers rated independent hearing aid retailers, like Hearing Healthcare Practice, as the best place to purchase hearing aids, outperforming both the NHS and national hearing aid chains. The report, which surveyed over 2,000 hearing aid users, found that those who purchased their hearing aids from independent retailers were the most...
December 14, 2022‘AI for people with hearing loss’ As described by AI.
AI will change the world, and it’s here already. AI, or artificial intelligence, is being used in a variety of ways to help the deaf and people with hearing loss. One way that AI is being used is through the development of speech-to-text technology. This technology uses AI algorithms to convert spoken language into written text, allowing deaf people to...