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.
We Are Recruiting
for a Front of House Executive We are looking for an enthusiastic person to join our small team based in Harpenden. We are Hertfordshire’s leading private experts for hearing care and audiology. We are a multi-award winning, independent, family-run clinic and we are recruiting for an amazing Front of House Executive. If you are well spoken, smartly presented, confident and...
May 4, 2023
Better Hearing. Better Life!
It’s Deaf Awareness Week (1st – 7th May) so we’re highlighting a story on Sky News concerning a recent RNID survey. It states; “One in 10 members of the public in the UK would actively avoid communicating with a deaf person, a new poll RNID has suggested. “It comes as almost half (48%) of 2,095 surveyed by YouGov said they...
April 26, 2023A Laughing Matter
We noticed an interesting article in The Guardian about comedian, Angela Barnes, in which she talks about being funny, being deaf (wearing hearing aids), and her diagnosis of ADHD. And that such seeming disabilities have been no barrier to her success. The opposite in fact. In the article Angela says; “… but the sanguine standup does engage with another novel...
April 23, 2023UK EMERGENCY WARNING Sun 23rd April
HEARING AID WEARERS TAKE NOTE The UK Government is testing a new national warning system which will automatically generate a loud alarm sound on your mobile phone and flash a warning on your screen today at 3.00pm, Sunday 23rd April. If you wear hearing aids which are bluetooth enabled and connected to your phone, please be aware that your hearing...
April 3, 2023Hearing 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...