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Woman Receives UK's First Fully Implanted Hearing Subscribe online for FREE Want EXTRA COPIES for and read the latest issue at your waiting room? www.hearingtimes.co.uk call 0845 2930688 for more info ® HearingApril 2011 Timeswww.hearingtimes.co.uk Woman receives UK’s first fully implanted hearing aid A woman from Hampshire can hear for the first time in 40 years after receiving the UK’s first totally implantable hearing aid thanks to the work of the South of England Cochlear Implant Centre (SOECIC), based at the University of Southampton The Otologics ‘Carina’ middle ear implant When the external part was removed, in Portsmouth. She lost her hearing when is special because it is the first totally for instance at night, or in the shower or she was six-years old and because of a implantable device to provide hearing with no swimming, the patient could no longer hear. closed right ear canal, she couldn’t wear a external components for the user. The device The implant is suitable for people with conventional hearing aid. consists of a rechargeable battery, a signal moderate to severe hearing losses who are “I was nervous being the first person to processor and a microphone which are all unable to gain benefit from conventional undergo this operation but the difference it implanted under the skin. hearing aids because of ear canal infections, has made to my life is enormous. Suddenly These are connected to a tiny allergies to ear moulds or a closed ear canal. there is all this sound that hasn’t been there electromagnetic vibrator which is positioned before, something as simple as the sound inside the mastoid bone behind the ear and “The advantage is to bypass the of water when I am washing my hair or the attaches to the hearing bones. There is external ear canal and deliver sound of my husband’s lighter. nothing on the outside of the head and the mechanical vibration directly to the “I have to use a charger to charge the ear canal is left open. hearing bones, avoiding the side internal battery for about 45 minutes every In the past the microphone and battery effects of ear moulds” day but otherwise there is no external were on the outside of the patient, held in equipment to wear. I can leave it on overnight place over the implanted part of the device by Sarah Flynn, Adult Programme Coordinator and can swim and shower with it in place.” a magnet. This external part was still visible for SOECIC, explains, “It works by delivering The operation was carried out at Queen and prone to being knocked off or damaged a mechanical vibration directly to the hearing Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth by or getting wet. bones. The microphone picks up sound from Consultant Otolaryngologist, Mike Pringle. under the skin and transmits it to the signal Mike, who last year conducted UK’s first processor. operation to fit a single cochlear implant “The signal processor amplifies the sound capable of giving sound in both ears. With no external equipment to wear the device based on the user’s needs and transmits the “The Otologics Carina implant is a middle can be left on overnight and when showering amplified signal to the middle ear transducer. ear implant. It is for people with a moderate Denise is currently undergoing auditory The transducer is positioned in a mounting to severe hearing loss who could benefit from rehabilitation at SOECIC to encourage system that allows it to contact and directly a hearing aid but are unable to use a hearing her listening with the new sensation she is stimulate the hearing bones. aid for a variety of reasons, the commonest experiencing. The main advantage of this approach is being ear canal infections. This is an individual programme using a to bypass the external ear canal and deliver “The Carina implant directly vibrates the computer to assess the levels and frequencies mechanical vibration directly to the hearing hearing bones which are in the middle ear. of sound that Denise can hear and tune the bones, avoiding the side effects of ear The Carina implant is also totally implantable implant accordingly. moulds.” so the battery, microphone and signal For more information about SOECIC Denise, deaf since the age of six, can now hear The recipient of the implant is Denise processor are all under the skin, leaving the and the work they are doing visit thanks to the completely invisible device Westgate, a 49-year old woman from Havant ear canal open.” www.isvr.soton.ac.uk/soecic Number 10 Downing Street hosts deafblind 10th anniversary party Roger Mulholland, a 24 year old deafblind man from Devon, baked a homemade 10th anniversary cake to give especially to the Prime Minister Roger’s cake was made from locally The ten deafblind people have all sourced ingredients at Café 55, a Sense run personally and practically benefited from café staffed by deafblind people in Exeter, the Guidance and represent the 356,000 where Roger works as a part-time waiter. deafblind people across the country, a figure which is expected to rise by 60% to 570,000 Sense’s message is clear that in the next 20 years. local authorities must do more According to Sue Brown, Head of Public to support the growing number Policy at Sense, “In this cutback climate of deafblind people without the Guidance thousands of deafblind people would remain without the right support, Roger’s mum, Jane Mulholland said, isolated and unable to contribute to society. “Before Roger’s Deafblind Guidance “While the Guidance’s ten years has meant specialist assessment in 2002 we found it more deafblind people have received better extremely difficult to get him the right social social care, Sense’s message is clear that care so he could access the world and choose local authorities must do more to support the how he wants to live his life. It gave us back- growing number of deafblind people.” up to stick up for what Roger is entitled to.” Sense is a national charity that has The Guidance was introduced by the supported and campaigned for children and Number 10 hosted 10 deafblind people brought together by Sense, the national deafblind Department of Health ten years ago to ensure adults who are deafblind for over 50 years charity, with ITV’s Sian Lloyd for the 10th anniversary of the Deafblind Guidance celebrations deafblind people can access social care from their local authorities. For more information visit www.sense.org.uk The Deafblind Guidance obliges local authorities to: • Identify, make contact with and keep a record of the deafblind people locally Turn to page 2 to read about Graham Hicks, • Ensure that appropriate services are provided for deafblind people - remembering that individual services for people who are deaf or who are a 49 year old deafblind man from Peterborough, who blind may not be appropriate for someone who is both deaf and blind holds three open Guiness World Records... • Ensure that they have access to fully trained, one-to-one support workers • Provide information in a suitable format which is accessible to deafblind people 2 News www.hearingtimes.co.uk April 2011 White paper warns Welsh Assembly Government must act now to of skill shortages NHS short of specialist staff despite end disability poverty in Wales, says charity cuts, says medical recruiter Leonard Cheshire Disability wants the Welsh Assembly Government to use its new powers to lift disabled people out of poverty Despite major cuts to front line services The charity’s report, Disability Poverty in In Wales a non disabled person is twice as people in Wales continue in the NHS, the health service is still short of Wales, reveals that disabled people in Wales likely to have a job as a disabled person, and to have very low levels specialist medical staff are experiencing increasing poverty and this disparity is greater here than anywhere of income and savings This is the message from the new white hardship more than anywhere else in the UK. else in the UK. and are clearly struggling paper on the medical employment market According to the charity levels of disability Joe Allen, Welsh Policy Officer for Leonard to meet even the basic from Your World Recruitment, who also warns poverty are unacceptable and a disability Cheshire Disability, said, “Poverty is one costs of living. They are that the government must be careful not to poverty strategy is needed. of the most significant, and challenging, in a tough economic store up problems for the future of the NHS. problems facing disabled people in Wales climate on a profoundly The report reveals that although cuts across In Wales a non disabled person today, and it is an issue that simply cannot unequal footing to non-disabled people. the board in the healthcare sector have led is twice as likely to have a job be ignored. “The failure to specifically tackle disability to a decline in medical jobs across the UK, “With a yes vote in last month’s referendum poverty represents a gaping hole in the Welsh at the same time there are still a number of as a disabled person the people of Wales have given the Welsh Assembly Government’s commitment to opportunities out there, especially for GPs, The report found that disabled people Assembly Government a clear mandate for tackling poverty and a solution must be found. nurses and other medical experts with very in Wales are almost twice as likely as non- taking more control over things that matter to Our report sets out clear recommendations specialist skills.
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