The Children’s Hearing Services Working Groups (CHSWG) guidance supports multi-disciplinary teams across health and social care to join with patient and parent representatives to consider how to improve service for Deaf children to provide them with the best possible start in life both in a health, educational and social setting.

A guide for employers to support people with hearing loss in the workplace.

A guide for commissioners, education and service providers to support young people with hearing loss through transition.

A guide for commissioners and providers of social and medical care for older people with hearing loss to help maintain health, wellbeing and independence.

This Hearing Loss Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) guide presents evidence on the prevalence and impact of hearing loss. This JSNA guide should be used alongside NHS England’s Commissioning Services for People with Hearing Loss: A Framework for Clinical Commissioning Groups which was published in 2016. Together, these two key outputs of the Action Plan on Hearing Loss, aim to support local authorities and NHS commissioners to meet their statutory duties to assess the needs of local populations, take account of health inequalities, advance equality and commission high-quality services to meet local hearing needs and improve public health.

This hearing loss data tool shows prevalence of hearing loss within CCG and Local Government Authority populations.  It can be used to support planning of local service to meet local population needs.