How many GP surgeries provided ear wax removal services in 2023?
How many GP surgeries provided ear wax removal services in 2010?
Number of people diagnosed with hearing loss in 2010
Number of people diagnosed with hearing loss in 2023
Number of A&E admissions for ear infections in 2010
Number of A&E admissions for ear infections in 2010.
Thank you for your request dated 1st February 2024.
Public Health Wales do not hold this specific information.
We do, however hold information relating to the Congenital Anomaly Register and Information Service (CARIS). CARIS collects information about any foetus or baby who has or is suspected of having a congenital anomaly. One of the areas CARIS examine is information surrounding ear anomalies and hearing loss.
All children with hearing loss must have a component of sensorineural hearing loss to be registered on CARIS.
The number of children diagnosed with hearing loss and reported to CARIS and born in 2010 is 73
Numbers for 2023 are not yet available. This works in financial years and most of 2023 data will not be available until after the close of the current 2023/24 financial year. Data typically becomes available in July.
Our last completed year is 2022 .18 cases have so far been recorded. Some sensorineural hearing loss is progressive and becomes more noticeable when children start school. This in part will explain the lower numbers in 2022 compared to 2010.
Public Health Wales is the public health service for Wales and as such is an independent NHS Trust. Therefore, do not have access to this specific information requested. As an organisation we have no jurisdiction over the activities of Health Boards and other NHS Wales organisations. This means we frequently do not have access to the data that they produce. I have provided contact details for all the Health Boards below; you would need to contact them individually for the information they hold on GP’s and A&E. Welsh Government and Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) may hold information on the amount of people diagnosed. I have provided their contact details below for you to contact.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sitesplus/866/page/39187
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sitesplus/861/page/39134
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
http://www.cardiffandvaleuhb.wales.nhs.uk/freedom-of-information-new
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
https://cwmtafmorgannwg.wales/foi/
Swansea Bay University Health Board
https://sbuhb.nhs.wales/about-us1/foia/
Hywel Dda University Health Board
http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sitesplus/862/page/52085
Powys Teaching Health Board
http://www.powysthb.wales.nhs.uk/freedom-of-information
Velindre University NHS Trust
Making a FOI request - Velindre University NHS Trust
Welsh Government
Requesting information from the Welsh Government (FOI requests) | GOV.WALES
Digital Health and Care Wales
Freedom of information - Digital Health and Care Wales (nhs.wales)
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Information Commissioner for Wales
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Email: wales@ico.org.uk