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Deaf Awareness Week launches support package

15 Apr 2016

The UK Council on Deafness has launched a support package for companies, organisations and individual dispensers who are planning to promote the annual Deaf Awareness Week which this year runs from May 2nd to 8th. This year the event will...

HCPC workshop to help produce social media guide

14 Apr 2016

The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) is to hold an online workshop during which registrants and stakeholders will be able to share their views on what should be included in its guidance on the use of social media. The...

Unitron gets a new Director

14 Apr 2016

Karen Redfern, well known to audiologists in her various roles at Phonak, has been appointed Director of the sister...

Douglas Beck’s new job

05 Apr 2016

One of the hearing care profession’s best known names has been appointed Director of Academic Sciences at Oticon in the United States. He is Dr Douglas Beck who has been a speaker at BSHAA events, most recently at the...

Standards of education and training

03 Apr 2016

The Health and Care Professions Council has published guidance on the standards of education and training it expects would-be healthcare professionals to meet before it will allow them onto their register. This document is aimed at the...