Chris Bennett: Sound and vision are perfect combination

‘In space no one can hear you scream’, writes Bill Harvey in his special piece on hearing loss and that is exactly how the audiology community must feel about its involvement in primary care.

This week’s Optician has a special focus on audiology to raise some of the key issues.

Harvey harnesses a popular phrase to describe the mechanism of hearing but the topic is far from alien to our practising clinical editor. His specialism, low vision, offers a prime example of how hearing and vision are everyday impediments to many of his ageing patients.

The game changer for the hearing community was the launch last month of the National Commissioning Framework for hearing loss (see InFocus) a blueprint which also opens possibilities for the optical community.