Hearing Loss Resources
If a patient is having issues with their hearing aids or they have been lost, they should contact the provider that supplied them in the first instance.
Useful contacts:
Royal Cornwall Hospital Audiology
More detailed information is available on the RMS webpages but the department is contactable via phone: 01872 254907 or email: rcht.audiology@nhs.net
Hearing Loss Cornwall
Hearing help & resources, British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters, communication support and lipspeaking, deaf awareness training, signposting, advocacy and BSL courses.
3 Walsingham Place, Truro, TR1 2RP
Website: http://www.hearinglosscornwall.org/
Email: info@hearinglosscornwall.org
Phone: 01872 225868
Textphone: 263664
Text relay:18001 01872 225868
Even in an emergency or if help is required outside of office hours, they will try to help if you telephone: 01209 823103
Cornwall Council Access Team
Contact the access team for referrals to the sensory loss team, rehabilitation support and social workers
Tel: 0300 1234 131
Email adultcareandsupport@cornwall.gov.ukorReferral.AccessTeam@cornwall.gcsx.gov.uk
Hearing and Sight Centre, Plymouth
Plymouth Guild, Guild House, 156 Mannamead Road, Plymouth PL3 5QL opening times: Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm
Email: ilp@improvinglivesplymouth.org.uk
Website: https://www.improvinglivesplymouth.org.uk/
Telephone 01752-201900
Next Generation Text
A relay assistant that converts speech to text between text user and hearing person.
Interpreter now
Live webcam tool for GPs to communicate with non-English speakers, hearing impaired and profoundly Deaf sign-language-users and foreign-language speakers www.interpreternow.co.uk0333 344 7712
GP support pages from the RNI:D